Redondo Improvement Co. v. City of Redondo Beach

The plaintiffs have appealed from that portion of a Judgment which was rendered against them following an order of the court sustaining the defendants’ objection to the introduction of evidence at the trial, on the ground that the complaint fails to state a cause of action. The plaintiffs’ application to amend their complaint was denied.

This is a suit for injunction to prohibit the City of Redondo Beach from interfering with the sinking of an oil well within the boundaries of that city. It is alleged that the plaintiff, Redondo Improvement Company, is the owner of 118 acres of land- in the extreme southerly portion of the City of Redondo Beach, which land is subdivided into lots and blocks; that this land is remote from the business and residential portion of the city, and is occupied and uséd only for Japanese truck gardening, except that a few temporary gardeners’ shacks have been constructed thereon; that an oil well was drilled on lot 24, block 10, of the Redondo Improvement Company’s land in 1921, which well ever since its completion has, and now does, produce 27 barrels of oil a day; that the owner of said property leased to the plaintiff, Chanslor-Canfield Midway Oil…