Kirby v. Tips

PLEASANTS, Chief Justice.

This is a suit by appellees against appellants to recover the rents alleged to be due them under a lease contract executed by Gus W. Tips and R. C. Tips on May 1, 1923, by which certain business property in the city of Houston, situated on McKinney avenue and Austin street, and fully described in the lease contract, was demised and leased to J. R. Bailey for a term of ten years.

The suit is prosecuted by Gus W. Tips, and Mary P. Tips who sues as sole devisee and independent executor of the will of R. O. Tips, deceased. The petition alleges that the plaintiffs, Gus W.…