Double v. Sawtell

This suit was filed by ap-pellees to recover $1,162.46 on deposit in the First National Bank of Normangee, Tex., in the name of C. C. Double, appellees alleging that they entered into a contract, by the terms of which they purchased an interest in certain oil leases on which appellants were then drilling a well, and made deposits in said bank in the name of appellant Double in payment therefor, said money to be used only in payment for drilling said well for oil on said lands. Appellees alleged further that appellant Double had breached said contract by abandoning the drilling of said well,…