Bell-Burke Oil Co. v. O'Neil

On September 30, 1919, the appellant company, as party of the first part, entered into a written contract with John O’Neil and H. A. O’Neil, a drilling • firm, which, omitting the formal parts, provides as follows:

“First party owns a certain oil lease on the following described property in Burkburnett, Tex., to wit: 100x150 feet, N. E. cor. block 28 — that in well No. 2 on said lease there is a bailer lost in same, and the first parties desire that second parties shall undertake to clean out said well and fish said bailer out and drill said well into the oil sand and put said well on the…