Jury for Eviction Case at JP court Texas

[Marian Smith]

I hung around even though I was not selected for the jury on an eviction case. The plaintiff was a software guy who owned the house with a partner...his opening statement was something like, this is such a simple case the attorney told me I should represent myself, cut and dried, etc. Turns out he had leased to a single female and had written at the top if the lease "Lease Purchase" and the tenant had moved into a house that still needed a lot of work and had paid for some of the work, had been told a price to buy the house ( but apparently there was no mention of purchase in the lease). Tenant had a lawyer, there was all kinds of testimony (tenant had moved in and cleaned up a trashed foreclosure in lieu of a deposit) and the lawyer seemed to be heading towards an argument that as the tenant thought she was in a buyers agreement the eviction period should be 30 days like a mortgage. I couldn't stay longer but I am curious what happened.