Rea

This is an appeal from a judgment in an action to recover money. Said judgment was against plaintiff and in favor of all defendants, adjudging that plaintiff recover nothing and awarding costs to each defendant.

Without further preliminary we launch off into the facts. Some argument is raised as to what were the real issues in the case and inasmuch as the findings are somewhat general there does seem room for argument. However, we may take appellant’s contention in this connection as being sufficient for present purposes. The defendants were jointly engaged in the procurement of leases and in the development of certain unproven oil lands of the class generally designated as wildcat. A certain oil company known as Neame Oil Company had leased some 295 acres of land in Tulare County to parties named Haas and Jones. These lessees had entered upon the lands and undertook the development thereof through sinking a well in the hope of discovering oil. After the well had been sunk some distance the defendants came upon the scene. They purchased the Haas-Jones interests and the Neame lease was transferred and assigned to defendants and a new deal inaugurated which embraced not only the…