Title Insurance & Trust Co. v. Amalgamated Oil Co.

On April 10, 1919, plaintiff’s testator, C. C. Conroy, executed and delivered to one Thomas H. T. Purman a lease of certain land situated in the county of Los Angeles. The lease gave to the lessee the exclusive right to enter upon the lands described therein, and to drill for, produce, extract, and take oil, gas, asphaltum, and other hydrocarbon substances from said land, and is what is commonly ■known and referred to as an oil lease. On May 9, 1919, said Thomas H. T. Purman and his wife, Jessie Purman, assigned said lease to the defendant herein, the Amalgamated Oil Company.

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