PACIFIC GAS & ELECTRIC CO. v. ZUCKERMAN

Docket No. C000138.

189 Cal.App.3d 1113 (1987)

234 Cal. Rptr. 630

PACIFIC GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. JOHN ZUCKERMAN et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, Third District.

February 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

Howard V. Golub, Robert L. Bordon, Robert R. Rickett, David W. Anderson, Donald Erickson, Diehl, Steinheimer, Riggio, Haydel & Mordaunt and Donald M. Riggio for Plaintiff and Appellant.

John M. Reece, Werdel, Chapin & Leverett, Sidney P. Chapin, Rader, Rader, Goulart & Mackay, Richard E. Rader, Lascher & Lascher, Edward Lascher and Wendy C. Lascher for Defendants and Appellants.


OPINION

SPARKS, J.

In this appeal we are called upon to determine a variation on the theme of the "rule of capture" as it applies to recovered gas. Plaintiff Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PGandE) acquired storage rights to an exhausted gas reservoir on an island in the San Joaquin delta. It also entered into an oil and gas agreement with the owners of the island to operate a nearby...

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