First State Bank of Tenaha v. Collinsworth

This suit was filed in the district court of Shelby county, Tex., by the First State Bank of Tenaha, to determine the rights of several rival claimants to a fund of $4,000 deposited with it in escrow in connection with an oil well drilling contract between J. F. Collinsworth as driller, and F. G. Curtain and F. E. Mulroy.

J. F. Collinsworth, an oil well drilling contractor, made a contract with F. E. Mulroy and F. G. Curtain, owners of certain oil leases in Shelby county, to drill a well. The contract which was in writing, together with $4,000, the contract price for drilling the well, were…