Owens v. Moraine

Opinion by

RAY, 0.

Plaintiff in error, plaintiff below, seeks to enforce specific performance of an oral contract. It is alleged that at the time the oral contract was entered into, and for a long time prior thereto, the plaintiff wias engaged in the industry of developing land for oil and gas, and in drilling wells on which it was thought successful oil and 'gas production, could be obtained by the expenditure of large sums of money; that he had blocked out an area of territory where he was willing to attempt oil and gas developments; that he had proposed to the landowners in that vicinity,…