Empire Oil & Refining Co. v. Babson

This action was brought on a written contract. Plaintiff, W. S. Babson, in a trial before the court without a jury, recovered judgment for what he claimed as a balance due him on a sale of a casing-head gas contract. If he were due anything, he was entitled to all the court awarded him.

Babson had owned a gasoline plant and its customary appurtenances and also by assignment a casinghead gas contract providing for sale by the Atlantic Oil Producing Company to Forrest E. Gilmore Company and its assigns (Babson) of casinghead gas from four leases. As assignee in this contract Babson was to pay…