Vickers Petroleum Co., Inc. v. Ned Biffle, Sole Owner, Doing Business as Ned Biffle Drilling Company

HUXMAN, Circuit Judge.

This was an action in which appellee Ned Biffle sought damages from appellant

Vickers Petroleum Company, Inc., herein referred to as Vickers, for breach of contract.. The factual situation out of which this litigation arose is as follows. Vickers was the owner of oil and gas leases covering an undivided % interest of the mineral interest under the North One-half of the Southwest Quarter of the Northeast Quarter of Section 27, Township 3 North, Range 2 West. The remaining of the mineral interest thereunder was owned by Biffle.' The lease which Vickers owned on this mineral…