Mathis v. Wherry

W. T. Wherry brought this suit in the district court of Jefferson county against Henry Mathis and H. M. Higgins to recover the sum of $1,200 as rent on a drilling rig alleged to have been rented by him to said defendants, and $500 as costs and expenses for removing or returning said drilling rig from at or near Rockland, Jasper county, Tex., to Spindletop oil fields near Beaumont, in Jefferson county, Tex., alleging that in his rental contract with said defendants they obligated themselves to return said drilling rig to said oil field, and, for the sum of $250 alleged to have been by him…