Koeberle v. Hotchkiss

This is an appeal from a judgment for $28,808.20 in favor of the plaintiff based on the written agreement of the defendants to pay the plaintiff 10 per cent of any and all royalties when and as received by the defendants from an oil lease covering a tract of 10 acres on Signal Hill, which the plaintiff in the year 1921 was instrumental in procuring for the defendants with the General Petroleum Corporation, as lessee.

Taking the evidence in the light most favorable to the respondent, which it is our duty to do where the contention is made that the evidence is insufficient, it appears that the…