McCurdy v. Harry L. Edwards Drilling Co.

CODY, Justice.

This was a suit for the construction of two drilling contracts, for an accounting, and for the recovery of certain items claimed by plaintiffs, McCurdy and Johnson, to be due them from defendant, Harry L. Edwards Drilling Company, a corporation. The Gulf Oil Corporation was also a formal party defendant in the suit.

Plaintiffs were the owners of two Brazos River Bed leases in Lochridge Oil Field in Brazoria County in September 1937, and at that time entered into a drilling contract with defendant to drill a well on one of the leases. That contract was in the usual form, providing…