BARNSDALL OIL CO. v. WILLIS

No. 11265.

152 F.2d 824 (1946)

BARNSDALL OIL CO. et al. v. WILLIS et al.

Circuit Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

January 12, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Arnold, of Texarkana, Ark., and Foster V. Phipps, of Tulsa, Okla., for appellants.

Elmer L. Lincoln and J. I. Wheeler, both of Texarkana, Tex., and Frank S. Quinn and Herbert M. Barney, both of Texarkana, Ark., for appellees.

Before SIBLEY, McCORD, and WALLER, Circuit Judges.


WALLER, Circuit Judge.

Appellant, J. K. Wadley, in attempting to secure additional oil and gas leases in the Eylau area of Bowie County, Texas, secured the services of A. L. Willis, as his agent or broker from time to time during the year 1943, to buy certain specified oil leases, for which Mr. Willis was compensated by commission, generally, of fifty cents an acre. Willis purchased ten leases in the area for Wadley on the above basis, eight of which were acquired...

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