Shirley v. Couch

Deen, Presiding Judge.

“Earthworm case.” On various occasions during 1977, Jimmie D. Couch solicited from the appellant, James Shirley, a total of $10,000 to be used in a partnership engaged in raising earthworms in Texas. This partnership, known as the Super Worm Ranch, consisted of Couch, who was an old friend of the appellant, and the appellee, Clyde Braddock, who was Couch’s brother-in-law. At all times during the solicitation, both Couch and Braddock lived in Texas, but on at least two occasions Couch negotiated the arrangement with the appellant at the latter’s residence in Georgia.

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