United States v. Record Oil Co.
District Court, S.D. California
Three suits by the United States against the Record Oil Company and others, against the Consolidated Mutual Oil Company and others, and against the Caribou Oil Mining Company and others.
1Opinion of the CourtBean, District Judge
(silting by special assignment). These three suits were brought to enjoin the defendants from occupying or extracting and removing the oil from the northeast, northwest, and southeast quarters of section 28, township 31, range 23 east of Mt. Diablo meridian, in the state of California, and to require them to account to plaintiff for oil heretofore taken. The cases were tried and submitted together and will be so considered in this memorandum.
The land is chiefly valuable for its petroleum contents. It is within the area withdrawn from all forms of location, entry or disposal by presidential…
2Cases cited3 opinions
- Dahl v. RaunheimSupreme Court of the United States · 1889
- El Paso Brick Co. v. McKnightSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- United States v. Devil's Den Consol. Oil Co.District Court, S.D. California · 1916