Legal Opinion

Creager v. Douglass

Texas Supreme Court

Decided May 27, 1890No. 6404PublishedCited by 30 opinions

Appeal from Wilbarger. Tried below before Hon. A. K. Swan, Special District Judge.

1Opinion of the Court

HENRY, Associate Justice.

—This suit was brought by J. H. Douglass against J. A. Creager to recover an undivided interest of 507 acres of *486land in a tract of 1227 acres patented to said Creager as the assignee of J. A. Williams.

The petition charged that a land certificate belonging to Williams was placed by him in the hands of Douglass for location, and that Douglass turned it over to Creager to be b.y him located, and that there was made between Douglass and Creager an oral contract that Douglass should receive from Creager one-half of whatever compensation was received by Creager for making…

2Cited by30 opinions

  1. The Oriental v. BarclayCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1897
  2. Burckhalter v. ConyerTexas Commission of Appeals · 1928
  3. City of Corpus Christi v. KrauseCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1979
  4. Wilcox v. DillardCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1927
  5. Hargis v. MoxonCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1931

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