COLLIGAN v. SMITH

No. 16385.

366 S.W.2d 816 (1963)

Mrs. R. M. COLLIGAN, Appellant, v. Joseph L. SMITH, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Fort Worth.

Rehearing Denied April 19, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bracewell, Reynolds & Patterson, and Harold R. DeMoss, Jr., Houston, for appellant.

J. Edwin Swift, Jr., and Ernest S. Fellbaum, Houston, for appellee.


LANGDON, Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant, Mrs. R. M. Colligan, a feme sole, seeking a declaratory judgment declaring void and unenforceable a written agreement which she had entered into with appellee, Joseph L. Smith, involving an option to purchase land owned by her. Appellant sought judgment on the grounds of no consideration or a failure of consideration, that such agreement was too vague and indefinite to be enforceable, and on the grounds that the...

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