Adams v. Petroleum Midway Co., Ltd.

Defendant, Petroleum Midway Company, appeals from a judgment for plaintiffs in the sum of $7,79-9.01 entered upon a complaint in the form of a count for money had and received by defendant for the use and benefit of plaintiffs. The case was tried upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that the sum sued for was claimed by plaintiffs as due and owing to them as royalty under the terms of a lease of oil lands, situate in Huntington Beach, executed by plaintiffs as lessors to the Columbia Leasing and Developing Company as lessee, and by it assigned to defendant and appellant…