Blaffer v. Powers

MONTEITH, Chief Justice.

This action was brought by appellee, C. S. Powers, for specific performance of a written contract with appellant, John H. Blaffer, for the purchase of an interest in an overriding oil payment out of a part of the production from what was known as the A. P. George oil lease covering 440 acres of land in Fort Bend County, Texas.

Appellant denied that he had ever contracted to purchase the overriding oil payment in controversy from appellee. He alleged that he had been led to believe by ap-pellee and his agent, Lewis Dickson, that the oil payment which he had contracted to…