Smith v. Smith & Walker

HENRY, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the appellees to recover the amount named in the following agreement:

“December 23, 1884.

“Know all men by these presents that we, Thomas Smith and Phil. Walker, have this day rented to J. W. Smith 120 acres of land, more or less, for $250, seven miles west of Cleburne; said crops now planted and to be planted on said land to be held and controlled by said Smith and Walker until said rents are fully satisfied.

[Signed] “Thomas Smith,

“Phil. Walker, “J. W. Smith.”

The cause whs transferred from the County to the District Court, and plaintiffs…