Yzaguirre v. Garcia

172 S.W. 139, 1914 Tex. App. LEXIS 1477
CourtCourt of Appeals of Texas
DecidedNovember 11, 1914
DocketNo. 5349. [fn†]
StatusPublished
Cited by7 cases

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Yzaguirre v. Garcia, 172 S.W. 139, 1914 Tex. App. LEXIS 1477 (Tex. Ct. App. 1914).

Opinion

CARL, J.

Appellee, Porfirio P. Garcia, sued Jesus Maria Vzaguirre, Cecelia Garcia Vda de Villareal, Josefa Villareal, after-wards Hinojosa, and her husband, Octaviano Hinojosa, and Eduardo Vzaguirre on an alleged option contract. It is alleged that the appellee was damaged in the sum of §60,000 by reason of the breach of said contract and failure of the defendants to convey between 5,000 and 6,000 acres of land in Starr county to the appellee. The petition charges that the land was to be conveyed at §1.25 per acre, and tbe difference between that figure and wbat tbe land is alleged to bave been worth on the market is the amount sued for. The land is a part of porciones Nos. 90, 91, and 92 in Starr county.

The written instruments upon' which the suit is predicated are:

(1) A letter from Jesús Maria Vzaguirre to P. P. Garcia, under date February 25, 1907, which reads;

“Señor Porfirio P. Garcia, San Antonio, Texas — Dear Cousin: On date of 19th of this month, I wrote you making yon my proposition for settlement of the account which you owe that is already due, but to this day I have had no answer from you. My son goes to your city and has my instructions to settle with you this account and to admit in part payment these properties you have down here. Please have the kindness to settle with him, as I desire that this account be settled to require or to employ any other person to make this settlement, which is very simple, and, for this reason, I desire that you settle and agree with my son now that he is there.
“Your cousin and servant,
“[Signed] Jesus Maria Vzaguirre.”

(2) Reply to the above, following its delivery, reading as follows:

“Mr. Eduardo Vzaguirre, Present — Esteemed Nephew: In consideration of the’option which you have offered me that I can buy, and you thereby bind yourself to sell to me, my heirs or successors, at whatever time that I may request it within one year’s time counting from tomorrow, the 8th clay of March, the rights in land in porciones 90, 91 and 92, or adjacent thereto, which your grandmother, Dona Ceeilita Garcia, widow of Villareal, and your aunt, Miss Josefa Villareal, have, and which also in the land of Santo Domingo, situated in Starr county, Texas, your father may represent, said three rights consisting of from 5,000 to 6,000 acres, more or less, and for which land you have fixed the price of §1.25 per acre, payable, in cash, at the time of my receiving the corresponding conveyances of same, I have agreed with you, today, in the following, in relation to the maturity of my note of December 31, last, executed in favor of your father on Nov. 7, 1906, and the rates of interest corresponding thereto to this date.
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