Friel v. County of Los Angeles

This is an appeal from a judgment wherein the court declared that certain provisions of the zoning ordinances of the county of Los Angeles, with reference to the drilling of oil wells were constitutional, reasonable, non-discriminating and not arbitrary, and that plaintiffs were not entitled to an injunction or any relief.

The appellants are the owners of, or claim the exclusive right to drill for oil in three noncontiguous parcels of land consisting of about one acre each, situated in a residential, unincorporated area of the county of Los Angeles, and which said area is zoned for residential…