Reed v. Barlow

SMITH, Chief Justice.

This is an action for damages alleged to have been sustained by lessors on account of the admitted failure of their lessees to offset producing oil wells on adjoining leases. On this theory Barlow and another, lessors, recovered damages of T. S. Reed and others, lessees, and the latter have appealed. Trial was by jury on special issues.

The parties have ignored the requirement (in Rule 421, Rules of Practice and Procedure in Civil Actions) that “every brief shall contain at the front thereof a subject index with page references where the discussion of the points relied…