Palmetto Oil Co. v. Bethany Oil & Gas Co.

In this action Palmetto Oil Company obtained judgment against the defendant, Bethany Oil & Gas Company, in the sum of two thousand dollars, from which judgment defendant appeals.

The facts upon which plaintiff based its action are admitted by the parties and are in substance as follows:

*2The Palmetto Oil Company having acquired from various individuals oil and gas leases covering about four hundred and fifty acres of land in .the state of Texas, assigned the same, insofar as the gas rights were affected, to g. V. Oeland, and, after the assignment to O'eland, it entered into negotiations with the…