Tupman v. Haberkern

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of defendants in an action wherein the plaintiffs sought an accounting of profits received by the defendants by virtue of a transaction involving a lease from the United States government of certain oil lands in the “Elk Hills” district in Kern County. The action was brought on the theory that the lease procured at the conclusion of the events hereinafter outlined was the fulfillment of a joint adventure entered into among the plaintiffs, H. I. Tupman, Fred V. Gordon and C. V. Anderson, and two of the defendants, C. F. Haberkern and S. P. Wible. The…