Hullinger v. Big Sespe Oil Co.

Defendant appeals from a judgment entered in the superior court in favor of the plaintiff for the sum of - five thousand six hundred dollars damages for fraud and deceit practiced by the defendant in a transaction concerning a lease on certain oil lands in Ventura County.

It is alleged in the complaint that, for the purpose of inducing plaintiff to enter into a lease on the premises, defendant falsely represented to plaintiff that it was the owner in fee simple of the property, upon which there was an oil well capable of producing fifty barrels of oil per day; that all of the leased land was…