Lamb

Lamb v. Owen

Good Law
1929 Cal. App. LEXIS 598·98 Cal. App. 106·276 P. 628
Court of Appeal of CaliforniaApril 2, 1929Docket No. 6600.California541 words

Opinion

lead Opinion

Tyler, J.

Mandamus to require the superior court of Kern County to enter a judgment in conformity to the mandate of this court. On December 21, 1927, a decision in the cause entitled W. S. Lierly v. David H. McEwen was rendered herein reversing the judgment of the superior court of Kern County, and thereafter a remittitur was issued to such court on the twentieth day of February, 1928. The remittitur directed respondent herein to enter judgment in accordance with said decision. ( 87 Cal. App. 711 [ 262 Pac. 457 ].) McEwen has since died and petitioner is the duly appointed administratrix of his estate. The case involved the proportionate interest which certain locators of oil lands were entitled to under a leasing agreement with the Associated Oil Company and their interest in certain funds paid by the oil company and held by a banking company under a trust agreement. It was there determined by the judgment that defendant McEwen was entitled to 1/384 of seventy-five per cent of all oil realized by said oil company from the lands in question and 1/48 of all sums of money paid to the banking company by it for the use and benefit of all the locators. As pointed out in our opinion there were…

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