United States v. California Midway Oil Co.
District Court, S.D. California
In Equity. Bill by the United States against the California Midway Oil Company, the Associated Oil Company, and others. We are hereby concerned with a suit brought by the United States to enjoin the continued operation by the defendants of the northwest quarter of section 32, township 31 south, range 23 east, Mt.
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In Equity. Bill by the United States against the California Midway Oil Company, the Associated Oil Company, and others. We are hereby concerned with a suit brought by the United States to enjoin the continued operation by the defendants of the northwest quarter of section 32, township 31 south, range 23 east, Mt. Diablo meridian, in Kern county, Cal., as an oil-bearing placer mining claim,* to cancel and set aside certain mineral locations thereon, and for an accounting for oil taken therefrom. The' result depends upon the bona fides of a paper location of the property in question under the…
1Opinion of the CourtBean, District Judge
(sitting by special assignment, after stating the facts as above). The record is exceedingly voluminous, consisting of many thousand pages of testimony and many exhibits. There is, however, but little, if any, substantial dispute as to the controlling facts, but the parties differ widely as to the inferences and conclusions to be drawn therefrom.
[1, 2] The locations made by McMurtry under the Chicago powers of attorney and the evidence in relation thereto may, I take it, be laid aside, except in so far as it may have a bearing, if any, upon McMurtry’s intention in asking for and obtaining the…
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- Ryder v. BambergerCalifornia Supreme Court · 1916
- Union Oil Co. of Cal. v. SmithSupreme Court of the United States · 1919
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- Jones v. SimpsonSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
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