J. Robert Sowder v. Waray Oil Corporation, a Corporation, Warren B. White and Stanton L. Young

MELLOTT, District Judge.

The parties willl be referred to as they appeared in the trial court. Plaintiff, 1 a resident of New York, sought specific performance of an agreement to sell designated oil and gas leasehold interests in Garfield County, Oklahoma. Judgment was rendered for the defendants, a motion for a new trial on the ground of newly discovered evidence was overruled and plaintiff appealed.

Many of the basic facts were admitted in the answer. White, president of the corporate defendant, had written two letters to plaintiff under date of May 25, 1954. In one the corporation offered to…