Burcum v. Gaston

The appellant instituted this suit in the district court of the Sixty-Eighth district, for Dallas county, against the ap-pellee, W. H. Gaston, alleging that on the 16th day of June, 1913, plaintiff and defendant entered into a written contract by virtue of which plaintiff, appellant here, agreed to purchase 5.483 acres of land in the South Dallas Garden, known as tract No. 15, block 6, at an agreed price of $822, $12 cash and the balance in 81 payments of $10 each, with interest from date at the rate of S per cent, per annum; that plaintiff had paid defendant $222.40 on the contract, leaving…