Lavery v. Gardner

Opinion by

ESTES, C.

J. K. Gardner, cíe-fendant in error, had judgment against G. W. Lavery and D. P. Farrell for $750 dry hole money, under a written contract between the parties pertaining to the drilling of an oil and gas well in a certain section 23. Defendants admitted that they owed the plaintiff said sum, but sought to offset same, under their cross-petition, alleging, for the most part, by way of conclusions, that the parties sustained confidential business relations among themselves and were engaged in joint ventures and mining partnerships in drilling oil and gas wells and in…