South v. Wishard

Plaintiff and appellant brought this action to quiet title to and establish a trust in certain oil rights, and for an accounting. The original complaint alleged that plaintiff was the owner of a one-sixteenth interest of all oil, gas and other hydrocarbon substances saved and produced from certain described parcels of land in Fresno County, which rights were commonly known as landowner’s royalty; that defendants H. A. Wishard, Stella Wishard, his wife, and Maudine Brown, claim and assert an interest therein adverse to plaintiff and that their claims “in said land or premises . . . ” or “said…