American Refining Co. v. Tidal Western Oil Corp.

Defendant in error, Tidal Western Oil Corporation, brought this suit against plaintiffs in error, Roy Perdue and American Refining Company, to recover actual and exemplary damages and for an injunction, restraining the Refining Company from refusing to deliver casinghead gas. under what is known as a casinghead gas contract, and from interfering with the right of the Tidal Company to take such gas. The Tidal Company alleged that it was the successor in title to G. W. Snedden, who on the 6th day of September, 1919, entered into a casinghead gas contract with the IXL Oil Company, covering 2.96…