Gibbs v. Seeger

The defendants have appealed from a judgment foreclosing a mortgage given by them to Wm. G. McAdoo and R. T. Colter, and assigned to the plaintiff. This mortgage was given as a part of the transaction described in the case of Wooten v. McAdoo, 110 Cal. App. 48 [293 Pac. 694]. The appellants owned a small lot (25x50 feet) in Huntington Beach, which they leased to McAdoo and Colter in connection with a similar lease of another lot of the same size owned by other parties, for the purpose of drilling for oil on the two lots thus leased, by means of power furnished and brought from a plant used in…