Walker Drilling Co. v. Carlew Drilling Contractors

Opinion by

STEPHENSON, C.

The Carlew Drilling Contractors, a corporation, owned a certain oil and gas lease in Garfield county. The latter entered into a drilling contraet with the Walker Drilling Company, a copartnership composed of several persons, to sink an oil and gas well on the leased premises. A written contract was entered into between the parties, setting forth the terms and provisions of the con-traet in detail. Among the numerous provisions of the contract are the following: (1) That a certain sum of money should be paid by the plaintiff to the defendants as rental on casing to be…