Lewis

This appeal is by the plaintiff from a portion of a judgment denying it damages for alleged inter ference with its leasehold rights in certain land in the county of Ventura, California. Judgment was given quieting plaintiff’s title to this leasehold interest and restraining defendants from interfering with the enjoyment thereof.

The defendants are the owners of the land and transferred to lessees the right to sink wells and prospect for oil. Through successive transfers, the plaintiff became the owner of these oil leases. There is no question about this phase of the case, and the portion of the judgment quieting plaintiff’s title to the leases, from which no appeal was taken, makes it unnecessary for us to set forth the details of the transactions leading to this result.

In its complaint plaintiff also charged that defendants interfered with it in obtaining drilling contractors and persuaded drillers to leave its employment and circulated false stories that plaintiff was not paying its bills, all wilfully and maliciously and for the purpose of obstructing plaintiff in its work under its leases; that defendants commenced certain actions against plaintiff’s predecessors in…