Green v. Partin

C. J. Partin sued Early Green in the county court of Nacogdoches county for $300. The suit grew out of a land trade made by the parties at Pyrtle, in Rusk county, Tex., in which Partin, who lived in Nacogdoches county, entered into an agreement with Green, who lived in Rusk county, to purchase from Green 91.1 acres of land situated in Rusk county for $1,838, to be paid therefor if Partin exercised his option to buy on or before December 1, 1919, and each of said parties put up his check as earnest money with one W. H. Whittington of Pyrtle, Rusk county, in the sum of $300, to guarantee the…