Higgins v. California Petroleum & Asphalt Co.

Each oí the three defendants called the “California Petroleum and Asphalt Company,” the “Alcatraz Asphalt Company,” and the “Alcatraz Company,” is a corporation; and this action is brought by plaintiff, as one of the lessors in a certain lease of asphalt mines, to recover from said defendants certain rents, or royalties, reserved in the lease. The trial court rendered judgment for a certain sum of money which it found to be due as such royalties, and from the judgment the said defendants appeal, bringing up rulings and evidence in a bill of exceptions.

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