Carter v. Haynes

Wilkie Carter, plaintiff in error, hereinafter designated appellant, sued J. H'. Haynes, defendant in error, hereinafter designated appellee, for $1,000 damages for injury to certain oil well casing on which appellant had a mortgage; the injury was alleged to have been done by appellee while attempting to draw the casing from a well in which it had been run. Appellant’s petition alleged facts constituting appellee a trespasser in possession of the casing at the time he injured it.

Appellee, in addition to a formal answer, pleaded certain written contracts for his authority to draw the casing,…