McCutchen

This is a bill in equity, brought by plaintiff for the purpose of quieting its title to the S. W. % of section 32, township 12 N., range 23 W. S. B. M., situated in Kern county The land is oil-producing land, and is averred in the bill to1 he of a value exceeding $10,000,000. The present motion is for the appointment of a receiver. Upon the hearing of the motion something over 40 affidavits were submitted, together with nearly 700 pages of typewritten testimony, which was taken in support of and in opposition to the application for a patent to this land, made on behalf of- the defendant Pacific Midway Oil Company. An extended review of all of this testimony is impossible within the limits of this decision. I must content myself with a brief statement of some of the salient facts, though the omission herefrom of any fact appearing in the evidence does not mean that such fact was not considered.

In January, 1900, G. W. McCutchen, R. L McCutchen, Lena Mc-Cutchen (his wife), W. C. McCutchen, J. B. McCutchen, M. P. Mc-Cutchen (his wife), C. W. Johnson, and M. A. Johnson (his wife), known in the record as the McCutchen family, filed a mineral location notice upon this land, and…