IN RE SENTINEL OIL CO.

No. 26521-S.

12 F.Supp. 294 (1935)

In re SENTINEL OIL CO.

District Court, S. D. California, C. D.

October 16, 1935.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrews & Andrews and Mortimer A. Kline, all of Los Angeles, Cal., McCutchen, Olney, Mannon & Greene, J. T. Cooper, and William E. Wright, all of San Francisco, Cal., and Pease & Dolley, of Los Angeles, Cal., for plaintiffs in state court action.

H. L. Carnahan and Reuben G. Hunt, both of Los Angeles, Cal., for Sentinel Oil Co.


STEPHENS, District Judge.

Recently a very serious condition has arisen in the production of oil and gas in California, and much litigation has already been started and it seems inevitable that much more will follow. This condition arises from the fact that oil wells are not always drilled straight downward but, according to allegations in state actions, wells are sometimes drilled upon a slant which bottoms them directly under the surface of lands owned and controlled...

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