Callahan v. Martin

THE COURT.

Plaintiff C. B. Callahan, as the owner in fee of real property in the county of Los Angeles, brought this action to quiet his title to said real property and “to oil, gas and other hydro-carbon substances and/or minerals in place within said land and to be produced, extracted and saved on or from said land”. Defendants Frank Martin and Stella Meyer Martin, his wife, claim an interest in said oil and other substances by virtue of an assignment to them of three per cent of all oil, gas and other hydro-carbon substances produced on said property, which assignment was executed by Jose…