Musick Consolidated Oil Co. v. Chandler

Appeals from an interlocutory judgment of partition and from an order denying Chandler’s motion for new trial. The complaint asks partition of certain oil lands, known as the Musick Consolidated Petroleum and Asphalt Placer Mining Claim, containing some 718 acres. The court found that the plaintiff owns thirty-one forty-eighths of the land, that Burdette Chandler owns eight forty-eighths, that Bernard Sinsheimer owns six forty-eighths, and that Abraham Stone and four others, as heirs of Jacob Stone own three forty-eighths. (There were twenty average acres to be taken from the plaintiff’s…