Williams v. Ball

This appeal involves the sufficiency of appellant’^ petition in the court below, to which a -demurrer was sustained. The facts alleged'in the petition will be stated as true, in deference to the rule that, in order to test the 'sufficiency of allegations as against a demurrer, such allegations must be taken as established.

Prior to 1913 appellant, Williams, resided in Nacogdoches, and was engaged in the practice of law, from which he derived an annual income of $1,500. In the year 1918 he was approached by one Sherman, a land sales-ma'n representing Jones & Naylor, the owners of a large body…