Poutra v. Martin
Court of Appeals of Texas
Appeal from District Court, Ft. Bend County; Wells Thompson, Judge. Action by Joseph Poutra against John Martin and wife. Defendants filed a plea in re-convention, and from a judgment in favor of defendants on their plea in reconvention plaintiff appeals.
1Opinion of the Court
This suit was brought by appellant against the appellees to recover one-half of the rice grown by appellees during the season of 1908 on land of appellant upon which appellees were tenants.
The defendants by plea in reconvention claimed damages against the plaintiff in the sum of $3,000 because of the alleged failure of the plaintiff to comply with his contract with defendants by which he agreed to construct a lateral connecting the land leased to defendants with a lateral of the Cane Belt Rice Irrigation Company sufficient to convey the water necessary to properly irrigate defendants' crop.…
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