MacNicol v. E. Coalinga Oil Fields Corp.

This is an appeal from a judgment in favor of the defendant in an action to quiet title and for declaratory relief.

The case was presented to the trial court on an agreed statement of facts supplemented by documentary and oral evidence introduced during the course of the trial. There is no dispute as to the facts.

In 1919 George Schwinn and Mattie Kearns owned an irregular quarter section of land containing approximately 183 acres located in Fresno County. The land is about twelve miles from the town of Coalinga. Its surface is barren and unimproved, with no roads or streets surrounding it. The…