Great Western Oil Company v. Carpenter

REESE, Associate Justice.

This suit was instituted by the Great Western Oil Company against F. H. Carpenter and his wife, M. A. Carpenter, for the recovery of $1,000 in money, and also for the recovery of a certain tract of 2.82 acres of land. Plaintiff prayed in the alternative that if it was held not to be entitled to recover the money and land, that it be reinstated in its rights under a certain oil lease which had been cancelled by agreement of the parties in consideration of the promise of defendants to pay the money and convey the tract of land sued for.

Upon trial without a jury there…