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Show AVHO OWXS OIL UNDER STREETS AM) ROADS An interesting question is before be-fore the courts in California as to who owns the oil under streets, highways, and right-of-ways. In California oil companies have a way of setting whip-stocks and deflecting the hole in a drilling well so it will be bottomed under another lease or if need be under a street or other easement, which is rather embarrassing in the case of town lot drilling. Decision De-cision is expected soon on the issue, as the Union Oil Co. has brought an action against Nadal Oil Co., asking that the latter be restrained by a court order from tapping the Union's community com-munity lease at Signal Hill. Inland In-land Oil Index. |