Texas Pac. Coal & Oil Co. v. Barker

This suit was instituted by Mrs. Suda Barker, H. M. Pickering, a minor, and W. M. Pickering, against the Texas Pacific Coal Oil Company, a corporation (and many others, individuals, on account of their interest in the subject-matter, but who disclaimed, and are finally disposed of by the judgment), for damages for breach of contract occasioned by abandonment of production from drilled wells, and failure to drill wells on lands leased to defendant oil company, so as to develop it for oil and gas, and by reason of failure to drill offset wells to prevent drainage of oil and gas by operators or…