DAURAY v. GAYLORD

No. 16704.

402 S.W.2d 948 (1966)

Hilda DAURAY et vir, Appellants, v. Robert GAYLORD, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Dallas.

Rehearing Denied May 6, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burford, Ryburn & Ford, Logan Ford and James H. Holmes, III, Dallas, for appellants.

Carter, Gallagher, Jones & Magee, and Morton A. Rudberg, Dallas, for appellee.


DIXON, Chief Justice.

This appeal calls on us to construe the meaning of a property settlement contract in which the word "contemplate" is the key word so far as our decision is concerned.

In 1958 Robert Gaylord and wife, Hilda Gaylord, paid approximately $21,000 for about two acres of improved property on a point overlooking what was then known as Lake Dallas in Denton County, Texas. Subsequently they spent about $50,000 improving and remodeling the house...

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