Lamb v. Washington Oil Co.

HUTCHESON, Circuit Judge.

The suit involved a tiny strip of land, 52x66 ft,, containing 5/100 of an acre, in a proven oil field. It was in equity to settle boundaries and for an injunction. The claim was, that it was a part of the South % of the Carl Rhode Survey, which had been partitioned into and had been subsequently owned and recognized as three substantially equal tracts with no strip between them, and that the claim of defendants, Lamb, et al., that because of restricted calls for distance in subsequent deeds one had developed between the middle and the western one-third, was not a…