Legal Opinion
Hancock Oil Co. v. Hopkins
California Supreme Court
Decided July 13, 1944No. L. A. 18087PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtEdmonds, J.
Two corporations, lessees of certain real property, demand that the lessors and certain other persons interplead their rights to the landowner’s oil royalties accrued and to accrue under the terms of the lease. A general and also a special demurrer, interposed by some of those against whom interpleader is sought, were sustained without leave to amend, and the question for decision concerns the right of a tenant to maintain such a suit against his landlord and a stranger to the lease.
According to the complaint, in 1936 W. L. Hopkins and Gertrude Ann Hopkins, his wife, leased certain real…
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