Grayson v. Pure Oil Co.

This appeal presents the question of whether payment in an agreed judgment in an action in the nature of an accounting for oil and gas produced and sold from 37% acres of land involved in the original action brought by Isom Grayson et al. included release of liability of the Pure Oil Company on two supersedeas bonds, one executed by James A. Harris and the Ohio Cities Gas Company (then the Pure Oil Company).

It appears that in 1917, Isom Gray-son and about 145 other plaintiffs commenced an action in the district court of Creek county against James A. Harris, William H. Harris, James H.…