United States v. Pan-American Petroleum Co.

NORCROSS, District Judge.

This is a suit in equity to cancel three certain leases of land within United States Naval Reserve No. 1 in Kern county, Cal., and for an accounting of the oil and gas produced therefrom. A fourth lease is involved by reason of being a consolidation of the other three. Two of the three original leases were granted directly to defendant, the other.to W. R. Ramsey, and by him conveyed to defendant.

The leases cover a portion of sections 1 and 2, township 31 south, range 24 east, and have a combined total acreage slightly in excess of that of a section of land. The leases…