Davis v. Amereda Petroleum Corp.

Plaintiff brings this suit to recover from defendant the sum of $157.1.6 for lumber and other building materials alleged to have been sold and delivered to and used by defendant.

The defense is that defendant did not purchase the materials and is in no way liable..

The District Judge gave plaintiff judgment as prayed for, and defendant prosecutes this appeal.

STATEMENT OP THE CASE AND OPINION

In the spring of 1922 the defendant corporation, then engaged in the oil business in the Haynesville field, employed C. B. Smelser to erect certain buildings on its Baucum and White leases. Defendant’s…