Stump v. Harvey

DUNKLIN, Chief Justice.

E. J. Stump, defendant in the court below, has appealed from a judgment in favor of E. C. Harvey and J. T. Young, composing the partnership firm of Harvey & Young, plaintiffs, for the sum of $1,-200 as damages for alleged breach of defendant’s contract to drill an oil well on a lease owned by plaintiffs.

The contract made the basis of the judgment was dated October 1', 1934, and was executed by both parties to this suit. It stipulated that defendant would drill an oil well on a lease owned by plaintiffs to a depth of 3,600 feet, and in considera-tipn therefor plaintiffs…