Luling Oil & Gas Co. v. Edwards

• McClendon, c. j.

Suit by Edwards against Ruling Oil & Gas Company for damages for breach of a eon-tract under which Edwards leased a drilling rig to the oil company. The judgment was for Edwards upon a special issue verdict, and the oil company has appealed.

The items of damage sued for were: (1) $625, rental, being $125 balance July and $500 all of August, 1928; (2) $140, cost of removing the rig from the leased premises; (3) $15, cost of completing dismantling the rig; and (4) $3,264, the value of various parts of the rig (24 articles in all) which were either lost or broken so as to be…