Finder v. EL Cheeney Company

McNEILL, Justice.

Appellant, owner of an oil and gas léase 'in Liberty County, employed E. L. Cheeney Company, appellee, to conduct certain- re working operations on Hooks No. 9 well thereon. During the reworking and while tubing, consisting of 94 joints and 5 tail joints, was being run into the well bore, the 4th and 5th joints from the top of such tubing separated and all of the tubing below such point of separation fell to the bottom of the well. Seventy-five joints of the tubing were recovered but the remaining joints could not be recovered, which caused the well to be plugged and…