People v. Associated Oil Co.

Application having been duly made to this court by the respondents herein, filed on December 9, 1930, pursuant to section 956a of the Code, of Civil Procedure and rule XXXVIII of this court, for an order that evidence concerning facts occurring subsequent to the entry of the order granting the preliminary injunction appealed from herein be taken on the issue that said order and preliminary injunction operated as an unlawful discrimination against the appellant Star Petroleum Company, and good cause appearing therefor, it is ordered that the testimony of Wayne Jackman, R. E. Gray and H. C. Stroebel be taken on said issue of unlawful discrimination and be produced before the Honorable Leon R. Vankwich, a judge of the Superior Court in and for the County of Los Angeles, who is hereby designated a referee of this court for that purpose; that said testimony be taken before said referee at his courtroom in the city hall of Los Angeles, in said county; that said referee issue a subpoena or subpoenas requiring said witnesses to bring with them or produce the records of production and disposition of gas and oil from said wells of said Star Petroleum Company for the period beginning March…