Chanslor-Canfield Midway Oil Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United Slates for the Northern Division of the Southern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Suit by the United States against the Chanslor-Canñeld Midway Oil Company and others. Decree for complainant (266 Fed. 142) from which defendants appeal, and plaintiff cross-appeals.
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Appeal from the District Court of the United Slates for the Northern Division of the Southern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Suit by the United States against the Chanslor-Canñeld Midway Oil Company and others. Decree for complainant (266 Fed. 142) from which defendants appeal, and plaintiff cross-appeals. This suit is to restrain waste and depletion of the oil contents of a certain described quarter section of public lands, to obtain an injunction against defendants from asserting title or interest in the lands, from trespassing thereon, for an accounting, for the…
1Opinion of the CourtHunt, Circuit Judge
(after stating the facts as above). [1] We first consider the question of jurisdiction. As stated, the suit was brought in equity to restrain continuing waste and depletion and for other relief, including accounting and adjudication that the property belongs to the United States free and clear of all claims of appellants.
Rule 22 of the Equity Rules (198 Fed. xxiv, 115 C. C. A. xxiv) provides: ,
“If at any time it appear that a suit commenced in equity should have been brought as abaction on the law side of the court, it shall be forthwith transferred to the law side and there be proceeded…
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