Burton v. Ross

Plaintiff in error sued the defendant in error for damages for breach of contract to furnish certain cows for use in connection with 2,000 acres of the latter's land near Genoa, Tex., and for an alleged balance of $156.32 in money claimed to be due plaintiff on an account between them, stating his cause of action with reference to the cows as follows:

"Defendant agreed if plaintiff would go to said land and run a dairy business and with said other two men cultivate as much of said land as they reasonably could, that he (defendant) would furnish plaintiff six milch cows of the reasonable market…