EAST COALINGA OIL FIELDS CORP. v. PURE OIL CO.

No. 364.

66 F.Supp. 716 (1946)

EAST COALINGA OIL FIELDS CORPORATION v. PURE OIL CO. et al.

District Court, S. D. California, N. D.

March 23, 1946.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel V. Cornell, C. Ray Robinson, and W. Eugene Craven, all of Merced, for plaintiff.

Ben A. Harper and E. S. Morris, both of Chicago, and Philip Conley, of Fresno, Cal., for defendant Pure Oil Co.

Dockweiler & Dockweiler and Thomas A. J. Dockweiler, all of Los Angeles, Cal., and Conley, Conley & Conley, of Fresno, Cal., for defendants Pacific Western Oil Corporation and George F. Getty, Inc.


MATHES, District Judge.

Plaintiff commenced this suit in the state court praying for declaratory relief under sections 1060 et seq. of the California Code of Civil Procedure. The complaint alleges plaintiff's claim, by virtue of certain written instruments and notwithstanding others, to be owner of and "for the period of fifty (50) years from and after February 1, 1922 * * * entitled to demand and receive twenty per cent (20%) of all the profits or royalties from...

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