Harvey v. Ballagh

This is an appeal from a judgment ordering an accounting, awarding plaintiffs and respondents $781.25 and a one-fourth interest in a certain oil and gas leasehold interest. On October 24, 1930, E. E. Ballagh and John Patterson, as lessees, obtained an oil lease to 120 acres of land in Kern County from the General Petroleum Corporation, and they, in turn, assigned this lease, in so far as it pertained to about 85 acres thereof, to Erie Petroleum Company, for which assignment the Erie Petroleum Company agreed to pay them $10,000. Two promissory notes, dated October 24, 1930, for $8,000 and…