Woodard v. Outland

BOOTH, Circuit Judge.

This is an appeal from an order barring appellant, plaintiff below, from further prosecuting an action at law. The sinuosities of practice leading up to the order were in substance as follows: The suit was brought upon a verbal contract covering the drilling of certain wells upon lands held by plaintiff under leases. The.petition set out the contract as follows:

“As a result of said negotiations, on or about the 7th day of December, 1921, at Dewey, Oklahoma, it was verbally agreed between plaintiff and defendant that the defendant would raise the necessary money to be used…