Cheadle v. Bardwell

This is an appeal from a judgment foreclosing a lien in Liberty county. The court refused to extend the provisions of the lien to certain oil-well casing used in the drilling of an oil and gas well. The appeal is from that phase of the judgment, and the question for us to decide is whether the lien did attach to the casing.

J. J. Hardie and L. C. Bardwell were in possession of an oil and gas lease, and on the twenty-eighth day of April, 1930, they entered into a written contract with Harold J. Hayes and William C. Fleming, copartners doing business under the name of Acme Drilling Company, for…