Carpenter v. Scott

Opinion by

STEPHENSON, C.

The Ardmore Standard Oil Company, while engaged in drilling operations in Carter county, borrowed 135 feet of ten inch oil well casing from the ‘plaintiff and agreed to return the same. Arch Carpenter and Claud Holden we're stockholders and members of the oil company. The oil company, through Carpenter and Holden and other members of the concern, reached the agreement .to sell 'the drilling rig and property of the oil company to D. C. Mayfield and Paul Frame. Carpenter and Holden knew that the casing was the property of the plaintiff, prior to the commencement of…