Thompson v. Hickman

Appellee recovered judgment against appellant and certain other defendants, who have not appealed, for the sum of $550 alleged to be due him for drilling an oil well. The suit was filed January 6, 1923, which was prior to the passage of act No. 615 of the Acts of 1923, § 12 of which amends § 6941, C. & M. Digest, and this amendatory act has therefore no bearing on this case.

The complaint alleged that, on June 8, 1922, J. M. Stocks conveyed a forty-acre tract of land to John L. Thompson, but that prior thereto, on May 5,1921, Stocks had executed an oil and gas lease to F. W. Higgins, who, •on…