Dormax Oil Co. v. Bush

This is an original application for a writ of mandate to require respondent State Oil and Gas Supervisor to issue petitioner Dormax Oil Co. a permit to drill for oil on lots 83 and 84 of Licensed Surveyor’s Map recorded in Book 16, page 2, Records of Surveys of Los Angeles County (located in the Rosecrans Oil Field).

Petitioners allege in their application for a writ of mandate that petitioner Warden is the owner of the above-mentioned lots and that he has executed a lease in favor of petitioner Dormax Oil Co. for the purpose of drilling for oil and gas upon said property; that on February 21,…