Kline v. Guaranty Oil Co.

The defendant appeals from a judgment in Eavor of plaintiff for $2,769.65 and also from an order denying a motion for a new trial. The business relations between the parties grew out of certain transactions culminating in a lease to plaintiff by defendant of certain supposedly oil-bearing property and the damages demanded were for an alleged violation of said contract. The agreement dated February 4, 1911, recited that for and in consideration of a nominal sum paid and the further consideration of mutual covenants and agreements contained in the instrument, the Guaranty Oil Company, a…