Shasta Oil Co. v. Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Co.

This suit was instituted in the district court of Wichita county, Tex., by the appellants, the Shasta Oil Company, Apple-Brandeberry Oil Company, Standard Pipe & Supply Company, corporations, F. O. Grebin, and J. Beren, against the appellee, Halliburton Oil Well Cementing Company, to recover damages in the sum of $50,000, alleged to have been sustained by appellants on account of the negligence of appellee in failing to properly cement an oil well for appellants.

The appellants alleged that they owned the leasehold estate on the west 80 acres of land in block 39 of the G. P. Meade subdivision…