Linn v. Houston

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Dawson, J.:

The plaintiff brought this action against the defendants to recover damages for the breach of a contract to drill for *410oil on certain lands in Wyoming covered by a lease which plaintiff had acquired on the faith of defendants’ undertaking.

Plaintiff alleged that in 1920 the defendants, Stinson, Houston, Howland, Geiger, Quinn, J. E. Wheeler and three other persons, one of whom, Henry Rodenbeck, is now deceased, organized themselves into a common-law trust for the exploitation and development of oil and gas lands and business incident thereto,…