MacHaelis v. Preddy

Pursuant to a jury’s verdict on special 'issues, appellees recovered $1,000 damages for the breach by appellant of a verbal contract' to rent them the Grand Theater building in Bay City, Tex., for the year 1926.

The issues and verdict were to the'effect that on January 12, 1925, appellants promised the appellees that at the expiration of the then existing lease on the theater building they would lease it to the appellees for the ensuing year (that is, 1926), that reliance upon such promise induced the appellees to buy the moving picture business, then in operation in that building, from Albert…