Osceola Oil Co. v. Stewart Drilling Co.

T. E. Allday and others, ■composing the partnership firm of the Stewart Drilling Company, recovered a judgment against the Osceola Oil Company, alleged to be “an association in the nature of .a partnership,” and Russell A. Richardson and C. O. Drake, as individual members of the said association with partnership liability for its obligations. This appeal is by the defendants from that' judgment.

The suit was based upon a written contract by the terms of which the plaintiff firm agreed to drill a well for oil and gas upon a lease held by the defendants. In the written contract the plaintiff…