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GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY v. SIMMONS

No. A-6111.

302 S.W.2d 400 (1957)

GREAT WESTERN DRILLING COMPANY, Petitioner, v. Ray SIMMONS, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied June 12, 1957.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, R. K. Harty, Lubbock, for petitioner.

Cade & Bowlin, Lubbock, for respondent.

GARWOOD, Justice.

Our respondent, Simmons, sued our petitioner, Great Western Drilling Company, for commissions or compensation allegedly due the former under a 1952 oral employment contract, pursuant to which he procured for the petitioner-defendant certain "farm-out" arrangements between the latter and the owners of substantial blocks of oil and gas leases, whereby the petitioner-defendant agreed to (and thereafter did) drill on several of the leases in return for...

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