GEO. H. JETT DRILLING CO. v. TIBBITS

Civ. A. No. 8636.

230 F.Supp. 58 (1964)

GEO. H. JETT DRILLING CO. v. E. H. TIBBITS, d/b/a Tibbits Drilling Company, Lamb Rental Tools, Inc., National Supply Division, Armco Steel Corporation. Houston Oil Field Material Company, Inc., Reed Roller Bit Company, United States of America, E. D. Squires et al., Gordon C. Freeman et al., Intervenors.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Monroe Division.

May 22, 1964.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John B. Hussey, Jr., Hussey & Moore, Shreveport, La., for plaintiff.

Warren D. Rush, Bean & Rush, Lafayette, La., Sidney B. Galloway, Cook, Clark, Egan, Yancey & King, Shreveport, La., for defendants.

Fred Fudickar, Jr., Oliver, Digby & Fudickar, Monroe, La., Lawrence L. May, Jr., May & Woodley, Patrick W. Looney, Bodenheimer, Looney & Jones, Shreveport, La., Edward L. Shaheen, U. S. Atty., and Edward V. Boagni, Asst. U. S. Atty., Shreveport, La., for intervenors.


BEN C. DAWKINS, Jr., Chief Judge.

September 11, 1961, Geo. H. Jett Drilling Co., of Shreveport, Louisiana, executed a contract with E. H. Tibbits, a resident of Texas, d/b/a Tibbits Drilling Company, in which Tibbits agreed to drill an oil well in Jefferson County, Mississippi, for $39,350.00. Tibbits' subsequent financial difficulties prompted his creditors to demand payment of their claims by Jett from the amount it would otherwise owe Tibbits under the contract...

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