Conservation Oil Co. v. Graper

A. B. Sutphin and the Western Drilling Company, as drilling contractors, filed an action in the lower court io recover from Conservation Oil Company, a corporation, the owner of an oil and gas leasehold, the contract consideration for drilling an oil well upon the owner’s leasehold, claiming that a well had been completed according to the terms of the written contract, and that the contract price 'was due and payable. The Conservation Oil Company denied that the well had been completed according to the terms of the contract; alleged that the contractors had materially damaged the well, after…