Massie Rather v. State Nat. Bank

HEAD, Associate Justice.

In this suit appellants allege that they erected a brick building in Vernon, under an oral agreement with appellee that it would enter into a written contract to rent it for five years; at $75 per month; that about the time the building was completed appellee refused to occupy it, or sign the contract as it had agreed to> do; that the actual rental value of the building for the stipulated five years term was only $1800, and damages were claimed to he estimated at the difference between this sum and $4500, the agreed rent.

The court charged the jury that, “If, under the…