SOUTHERN PACIFIC LAND CO. v. WESTLAKE FARMS, INC.

Docket Nos. F005660, F006552.

188 Cal.App.3d 807 (1987)

233 Cal. Rptr. 794

SOUTHERN PACIFIC LAND COMPANY et al., Plaintiffs and Appellants; THURNER ENERGY CORPORATION et al., Plaintiffs, Cross-complainants and Appellants, v. WESTLAKE FARMS, INC., et al., Defendants, Cross-defendants and Respondents; BIRD OIL CORPORATION et al., Cross-defendants and Respondents.

Court of Appeals of California, Fifth District.

January 12, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

COUNSEL

O'Melveny & Myers, Owen Olpin, Bertrand M. Cooper, Cheryl White Mason, Rena L. Ahern, Kimble, MacMichael & Upton, Thomas A. MacMichael, David Douglas Doyle, D. Tyler Tharpe and Kadison, Pfaelzer, Woodard, Quinn & Rossi for Plaintiffs and Appellants and for Plaintiffs, Cross-complainants and Appellants.

McCormick, Barstow, Sheppard, Wayte & Carruth, Oliver W. Wanger, Lawler, Felix & Hall, Mark S. Lee, John G. Wigmore and Pillsbury, Madison & Sutro for Defendants, Cross-defendants and Respondents and for Cross-defendants and Respondents.


[Opinion certified for partial publication.*]

OPINION

BROWN (G.A.), P.J.

This proceeding arises out of a controversy among the parties with regard to the interpretation of an oil and gas lease and related disputes. The lease was entered into on September 15, 1980, between Westlake Farms, Inc., Ceil W. Howe and Edwin H. Howe, Jr., as lessors, and American Quasar Petroleum Co. of New Mexico as lessee...

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