Miles v. United Oil Co.

Opinion of the -Court by

Judge Thomas

— Affirming.

The appellant, J. FrecTMiles, was plaintiff below and the appellee, The United Oil Company, was defendant below. The action was filed in the Estill circuit court by plaintiff to recover damages of defendant for the breach *543of an alleged contract to sell to plaintiff or to such purchasers as he might procure certain oil leases held by defendant upon 1,280 acres of oil producing land in Estill county and upon which it had a number of producing wells. The damages claimed by plaintiff as a direct consequence of the alleged breach was the sum of…