J. P. Watkins Land Mortgage Co. v. Campbell
Texas Supreme Court
Error to the Court of Civil Appeals for the Fifth District, in an appeal from Dallas County. Campbell and wife sued the mortgage company and recovered judgment. Defendant appealed, and on affirmance obtained writ of error.
1Opinion of the Court
WILLIAMS, Associate Justice.
Campbell and wife brought this-suit to recover of the mortgage company a sum paid as earnest money upon, and damages for breach of, a contract by which the company, acting through parties alleged to be its agents, agreed to sell and convey to Mrs. Campbell certain real property in the city of Dallas. The contract price to be paid by Mrs. Campbell was $1800, and she alleged the value-of the property at the time when it should have been conveyed to her to have been $3000, and sought to recover as her damage the difference-between the two amounts. She recovered…
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