C. B. Chittim v. Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, a Corporation

HILL, Circuit Judge.

C. B. Chittim, appellant, commenced this action in the state court against Texas Pacific Coal and Oil Company, appellee, for the alleged breach of what is commonly known in the oil and gas industry as a farmout agreement, providing for the drilling of an oil and gas well in Crook County, Wyoming. Texas Pacific, with a corporate existence in the State of Texas, removed the same to the Federal court, where trial was had to the court, without a jury, resulting in a judgment against appellant. Judgment was also entered allowing appellee recovery against Chittim on a…