Kern Sunset Oil Co. v. Good Roads Oil Co.

In this action the plaintiff sought to declare the forfeiture of a certain lease of oil lands, executed by it in favor of the defendants, Barlow and Hill, and by them assigned to the defendant, Good Roads Oil Company, upon the ground and for the reason that the lessees and their assign had broken the terms of said lease in that, while the lease provided for the drilling and placing upon production of two wells each year until sixteen wells had been drilled and brought into production, said lessees and their assign had only completed thirteen wells during a period of over thirteen years from…