Maloy v. Wagner

Dan Maloy instituted this suit in the District Court of Hidalgo County, Texas, against John D. Wagner and his daughter, Mrs. A. B. DeKock, and her husband, for enforcement of a lease contract, made by Wagner, while owner of the land, with Maloy, as lessee, of forty acres in that county. Maloy sought also to enjoin defendants from interfering with his possession. The lease contract was oral and for a three-year term. The court at a hearing on the merits without the aid of a jury decreed performance of the contract and made permanent a temporary injunction securing enforcement of the lease…