McCORMICK, District Judge.
This is a suit in equity whereby the complainant, Jean Bourdieu, seeks to impress a trust in his favor upon an oil and gas lease issued by the United States on October 4, 1929, to defendants Kettleman Oil Corporation and Pacific Western Oil Company, a corporation, under the Leasing Act of February 25, 1920 (section 1 et seq., 41 Stat. 437).
The lease grows out of a prospecting permit granted by the government on May 28, 1921, under...
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