Shannon v. General Petroleum Corp.

This is an appeal from two judgments entered after two separate demurrers had been sustained to plaintiffs’ amended complaint. Plaintiffs sought judgment for large sums of money received as oil royalties, for a decree that certain oil royalties were held in trust for them, and that certain defendants convey those royalties to them.

*653This case is an outgrowth of the dealings of Washington H. Ochsner with oil interests under a prospecting permit which he obtained from the United States on April 16, 1921, permitting him to prospect for oil on government land in the Kettleman Hills, in Kings…