Cal—Bay Corp. v. United States

DENMAN, Circuit Judge.

Appellants appeal from a decree in a condemnation proceeding awarding to each damages for the taking of the lessors’ and lessees’ mineral rights in land under leases for oil and gas development, upon which it is claimed there had been a discovery of petroleum gas of commercial quantities. They claim, inter alia, that by the refusal of a proper instruction on the valuation of the oil and ga's leases, the amount of damage awarded by the jury is grossly inadequate.

The maps in evidence, referred to in appellants’ briefs, show these oil and gas leases are of land in northern…