Isom v. Rex Crude Oil Co.
California Supreme Court
APPEAL from a judgment of the Superior Court of Los Angeles County. W. F. Fitzgerald, Judge. The facts are stated in the opinion of the court.
1Opinion of the CourtHenshaw, J.
Plaintiff, the owner of a certain piece of land in the city of Los Angeles, sued defendant as assignee of her lessee to have canceled and annulled a lease under which it was holding, and for damages for its unlawful extraction of oil from her land. She alleged that she was in an eastern state, and in ignorance of the condition of her property and of the surrounding property, and in ignorance of the fact that the land lay in an oil belt or district within the city of Los Angeles; that Book, her lessee, by letter represented to her that he wished to lease the premises for the purpose of…
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