Chastain v. Cooper & Reed

CRAMER, Justice.

This is a rather complicated lawsuit involving- a number of controversies growing out of the drilling of a well for oil and gas in what is known as Tri-Cities Field in Henderson County, Texas, and the failure of Humphrey Marshall to pay the drilling contractor and numerous other parties who furnished materials or performed work on said well. Numerous affidavits for liens were filed by parties who either intervened or were made parties-defendant. Whiteley-Phillips Drilling Company claimed under both an oral agreement with M. B. Chastain and a written contract with Marshall for…