TUTTLE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a judgment by the trial court without a jury in favor of the plaintiffs who sought damages from the defendant, as lessee under an oil lease on eighty acres of land for the failure of lessee to drill a well in search for oil or gas, which plaintiffs asserted it obligated itself to do under the terms of the lease.
The appeal presents two questions for review: The first is whether the lease imposed an absolute liability...
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