LITTLE v. MOUNTAIN VIEW DAIRIES

Docket No. L.A. 20462.

35 Cal.2d 232 (1950)

217 P.2d 416

R.C. LITTLE et al., Appellants, v. MOUNTAIN VIEW DAIRIES, INC. (a Corporation), Respondent.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

April 28, 1950.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dolley, Knight, Woods & Hightower and Arthur B. Knight for Appellants.

Richard A. Grant, Warren S. Pallette, Paul A. Lower, S.E. Cavanaugh, L.R. Seaman, Rush M. Blodget, Alfred W. Mitchem and Gordon A. Goodwin as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Joseph A. Ball and E.P. Mulholland for Respondent.


TRAYNOR, J.

In 1935 plaintiffs' predecessors in interest in certain real property granted to defendant a limited interest in that property described as "Eight and one-third per cent (8-1/3%) of all oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances, and minerals, in, under and/or which may be hereafter produced and saved from" the property. In 1945 plaintiffs leased the property to Loren L. Hillman, Inc., for the purpose of producing oil and gas. The lease reserved to plaintiffs...

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