Maser v. Farmers' Etc. Bank of Winnett

This is an action to recover damages for the conversion by defendant of a cashier’s check in the sum of $600. The action was tried to the court without a jury, resulting in a judgment in favor of defendant from which plaintiff has appealed.

The complaint sets forth that plaintiff, as the owner of certain land in Petroleum county, entered into a contract with W. M. Hostetler some time prior to October 23, 1926, whereby the latter was to drill for oil on plaintiff’s land; that Hostetler was insolvent and had no tools with which to do the drilling, nor any means of acquiring them on his own…