Western Etc. Oil Co. v. Title Insurance & Trust Co.

This is an action for declaratory relief under an oil and gas lease and to require lessor to pay the cost of dehydrating oil.

In this proceeding plaintiff seeks declaratory relief to determine the rights and duties of the lessor and lessee with respect to the dehydration or cleaning of the oil produced under an oil and gas lease executed by plaintiff’s predecessor, as lessee, with the predecessor of defendant as lessor of premises in the Fruitvale Oil Field in Kern County, and to recover from defendant lessor the cost of dehydrating lessor’s royalty share of said oil.

The lease provides in part…