Alma Investment Co. v. Krausse

This is an action to quiet title. Fifteen of the 31 defendants appeal from a judgment quieting the plaintiffs’ title to “a 98% interest in the mining rights in, and all the oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances under” a certain 40 acres of land in Kern County.

This land was acquired in 1936 by William J. Williams and Bertha Williams, his wife, as joint tenants. They conveyed oil and gas rights to a number of persons, these conveyances covering in the usual language an undivided fractional interest,in “all oil, gas and other hydrocarbons in or under” this land. In January, 1939, the…