Whiteside v. Trentman

Mr. Judge Hickman

delivered the opinion of the Commis sion of Appeals, Section A.

In the trial court petitioner, J. E. Whiteside, was awarded a judgment against respondent, Harry Trentman, Jr., for damages for breach of a contract to drill an oil well. The Court of Civil Appeals reversed the trial court’s judgment and remanded the cause. 163 S. W. (2d) 418. Whiteside alone made application for writ of error.

It is thought that a brief statement will answer the purposes of this opinion. Whiteside and another, whose interest he later acquired, owned a block of contiguous oil and gas leaseholds in…