Caswell v. Gardner

This is an action to quiet title broujght by the owners of the fee of certain oil lands against numerous defendants including George Gardner as trustee in bankruptcy of the South Consolidated Oil Company, a corporation, a bankrupt, who claims an interest therein. j In 1927, a lease was executed by William Caswell, Katherine Ellis and Pacific Southwest Trust and Savings Bank, the predecessors in interest of the present owners which lease by mesne conveyance on November 25, 1929, came into the possession of South Consolidated Oil Company, Ltd., a corporation. On August 9, 1930, this company…