Shell Oil Co. v. Superior Court

In an action pending in the Superior Court of the State of California, in and for the County of Los Angeles, Josephine Cook, as plaintiff by her second amended complaint against Shell Oil Company, alleged that she was the owner of certain fractional royalty units under a certain oil and gas lease known as the ShellCoseboom-Dabney Lease, a copy of which was attached to the complaint; that there were certain breaches of covenants, express and implied, under said lease by the Shell Oil-Company, petitioner herein, and by which action she claimed damages in a large amount. Subsequent to the filing of answer by the defendant herein, and pursuant to section 1000 of the Code of Civil Procedure, the plaintiff made her motion before the respondent court for an order of inspection and copy of records alleged to be in the possession or under the control of petitioner, and upon the hearing of said motion the respondent court granted same and made its written “order to permit inspection and right to copy certain records and documents” whereby it ordered petitioner, the Shell Oil Company, to “give to the plaintiff and/or her attorneys ... an inspection and permission to take copies of each and…