Selby

As assignee of certain claimants, the plaintiff sued to obtain a judgment enforcing an alleged judgment which purported to fix his interest in a certain fund. From a judgment in favor of the defendants "the plaintiff appealed.

Prior to the year 1924 the Pacific Corporation had undertaken the sinking and development of well No. 16, and had sold fractional interests in the production to a large number of persons. In March, 1924, A. J. Charló and many others claiming to hold interests, commenced an action to have their interests determined, to obtain an accounting, and to recover the several sums so found to be owing to such claimants. That action was number 16653 of the records of the Superior Court in and for the County of Orange. Thereafter that action was tried and findings in favor of the plaintiffs therein named were filed on September 3, 1925. The findings are very long. From them we gather the following facts: In 1922 Muriel S. Lieherman was the owner of the land. She executed a lease to R. C. Steel. He and his associates caused to be organized a corporation. The lease was assigned to the corporation. To the lessor the corporation assigned 22% per cent of the production. To…