Cates v. Producers' & Consumers' Oil Co.

BOSS, Circuit Judge.

The case made by the bill in this suit is altogether different from that presented by the bill in the suit of Mining Co. v. Miller, 96 Fed. 1, the demurrer to which has just been sustained. In the present suit the bill alleges that the complainants, eight in number, and each, according to the averments oí the bill, a citizen of the United States, and of lawful age, having discovered valuable deposits of petroleum oil upon a certain quarter section of land within the Coalinga mining district, in Fresno county, Cal., associated themselves for the purpose of locating,…