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BERRY OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES

No. 43258.

25 F.Supp. 97 (1938)

BERRY OIL CO. v. UNITED STATES.

Court of Claims.

As Amended January 9, 1939.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Littleton, of Washington, D. C. (M. K. Wild, of Fresno, Cal., on the brief), for plaintiff.

Guy Patten, of Washington, D. C., and James W. Morris, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert N. Anderson and Fred K. Dyar, both of Washington, D. C., on the brief), for the United States.

Before BOOTH, Chief Justice, and GREEN, WILLIAMS, and WHALEY, Judges.

GREEN, Judge.

In 1926, C. J. Berry received a lease from one George Tourny, the owner of certain lands in California, under which Berry was given the right to drill for oil or gas for a period of twenty years and as long thereafter as oil or gas was produced in paying quantities. The conditions of the lease are shown in the findings but none of them raise any controversy in the case. The plaintiff corporation became the owner of this lease and since about 1928 has...

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