Lincoln v. Kirk

T. P. Kirk and O. C. Pruett instituted this suit complaining of R. A. Lincoln, W. P. Lincoln, Bob Brewer, and A. T. McDaniel, and alleged as a ground of action that during the month of May, 1919, the defendant R. A. Lincoln represented to the plaintiffs that he and his associates (the other defendants named) were going to purchase an oil and gas lease upon a described five-acre tract of land in Wichita county, Tex., and that said defendant R. A. Lincoln and his said associates contemplated drilling two wells on said tract of land, and that they desired the plaintiffs, or one of them, to drill…