Alamitos Land Co. v. Shell Oil Co.

Plaintiff and defendant, corporations, are respectively the lessor and lessee under an oil and gas lease touching lands in Los Angeles County, a part of the Signal Hill oil field. The lease is dated January 3, 1921, and was amended in certain particulars, respecting the production of gas only, on March 14, 1924. This action by plaintiff is one in equity to impeach as insufficient' and fraudulent the accounting made by defendant to plaintiff respecting its one-sixth owner’s royalty interest in the oil and gas produced and saved from the demised premises and to secure the confirmation, by…