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RICHFIELD OIL CORP. v. CRAWFORD

Docket No. L.A. 21956.

39 Cal.2d 729 (1952)

249 P.2d 600

RICHFIELD OIL CORPORATION (a Corporation) et al., Appellants, v. WALTER M. CRAWFORD et al., Defendants and Respondents; MAURICE HENDERSON et al., Interveners and Respondents.

Supreme Court of California. In Bank.

October 21, 1952.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cree & Brooks, John Brooks, Marlon F. Schade, Griffith & Thornburgh, C. Douglas Smith, O'Melveny & Myers, Jackson W. Chance and Rodney K. Potter for Appellants.

Everett S. Layman, Kenneth S. Carey, Howard H. Bell, Richard E. Tuttle, Lawrence L. Otis and James F. Healey, Jr., as Amici Curiae on behalf of Appellants.

Joseph A. Ball, Clark Heggeness, Ball, Hunt & Hart, Schauer, Ryon & McMahon, Thomas M. Mullen and Harry E. Templeton for Interveners and Respondents.

Arthur C. Fisher, Overton, Lyman, Prince & Vermille, Donald H. Ford, Faries & McDowell, McIntyre Faries and Wayne R. Hackett as Amici Curiae on behalf of Respondents.

TRAYNOR, J.

This appeal involves the interpretation and application to certain parcels of land of section 3600 of the Public Resources Code regulating the spacing of oil and gas wells. The accompanying diagram shows the relationship of the parcels and the wells thereon.

All oil wells are producing from the Colgrove formation in the Cuyama oil field. The dotted line across the diagram represents the Hadley-Stone fault, running in a northwest...

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