Nogals Oil & Gas Co. v. Merchants' & Planters' Bank

The Merchants’ & Planters’ Bank of Henrietta filed suit on October 7, 1920, against the Nogals Qil & Gas Company. By its amended petition, filed October 11, 1922, it made Charles L. Koethe and H. Boddy also parties defendant. The petition alleged that defendant Keothe had entered into a verbal contract with Howard Clay Oil Company, a copartnership composed of Clyde West, A. W. Tarrant, S. F. Dillard, Marvin Walsh, W. T. Kent, M. A. Weaver, T. H. Bourland, and H. Boddy, under the terms of which contract Keothe agreed to perform and did perform two months of labor at the agreed compensation of…