Skelly Oil Co. v. Pruitt McCrory

'opinion by

STEPHENSON, O.-

In.the trial of this cause the jury returned a verdict for plaintiffs. The defendant brings error and seeks reversal principally on the ground of insufficiency of the testimony to support the verdict of the jury. The defendant seiit B. Y. Emory, one of its employes, to Carter county to prepare a lease for the drilling ;of-u well. It appears that the defendant instructed ’’the Agent to ilit'erihew á‘"mán By the name of Wallace, who owned a léase -in-the vicinity of the holdings of the defendant, for tie purpose ' of ascertaining what ’• the lóase could he purchased…