Sellery v. Ward

— The controversy between the parties arises out of an arrangement between them and one Yosper in which each, being the owners of adjacent parcels of property, agreed to and did join in a community oil and gas lease of their respective parcels of properties to the Allied Petroleum Corporation.

On October 2, 1936, plaintiffs, defendants and Yosper (a defendant who was dismissed from the action) were the owners of groups of adjoining lots in Long Beach, California, the percentage of the area owned by each of the total area of all, being as follows, plaintiffs 44.2 per cent, defendants 44.2 per…