Consolidated Mut. Oil Co. v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the Southern Division of the Southern District of California; Maurice T. Dooling, Judge. Two suits in equity by the United States against the Consolidated Mutual Oil Company and J. M. McDeod. Decrees for complainant, and defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the Court
ROSS, Circuit Judge.
The subject-matter of case No. 2787 is the northeast quarter, and of case No. 2788 the northwest quarter, of section 28, township 31 south, range 23 east M. D. M., and the oil contents of those lands. The facts in each case being substantially the same, the cases have been árgued and submitted together.
The appellants, who were defendants in the court below, being in the possession of and claiming the right to the land and the oil it contained, which oil they were extracting by means of numerous wells, the government, on the 25th day of October, 1915, commenced the suits to…
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