Texas Supreme Court February 7, 1881, Case No. 1036 (Clayton v. Preston)

Moore, Chief Justice.

This suit was brought by appellant, W. J. Clayton, in the district court' of Wharton county, March 1, 1878, against Tilson C. Barden, alleged to be a citizen of Victoria, for the recovery of damages which Clayton avers he had sustained by reason of a violation by Barden of a contract by which the latter leased to the former for a term of years a plantation sit*419uated in