Callahan v. Walsh

Appellee, J. E. Walsh, owned a 7,000-acre oil and gas lease on what is described throughout the record as the "Wade Ranch," in Jim Wells and Live Oak counties. He employed appellant, T. W. Callahan, to make a certain geological examination and report upon that lease, and to make a well location thereon. For the work appellee agreed to pay appellant $250 in cash "and equivalent of $1,000 in acreage." Appellant fully performed his obligations under the agreement, and appellee paid him the $250 cash agreed upon, but declined to perform the further obligation to pay the "equivalent of $1,000 in…