Quade v. Zicos

PRESIDING JUSTICE SCHEINEMAN

delivered the opinion of- the court. .

This is an appeal from an order appointing a temporary receiver to operate a certain oil leasehold and authorizing the receiver to employ attorneys, agents and necessary personnel.

The plaintiffs, as owners of one-eighth of the working interest filed this suit in June of 1953, naming George Zicos as sole defendant, and he answered admitting he was operating the leasehold under an agreement with the owners but denying all other allegations of the complaint. Nothing was done in the case for more than a year. Then in November of…