Westgate-Greenland Oil Co. v. MacK

NORVELL, Justice.

Westgate-Greenland Oil Company has appealed from a judgment based upon a peremptory instruction awarding to it a recovery of nominal damages only against appellee, J. O. Mack, because of Mack’s breach of a written contract for the drilling of certain oil wells upon lands lying within the townsite of Placedo, Victoria County, Texas.

The only point involved upon the appeal is the proper measure of damages in a case of this character.

On October 5, 1936, the appellant owned oil, gas and mineral leases covering fifty-four tracts within the Placedo Townsite, as well as nine tracts…