ESSO STANDARD OIL CO. v. NESBITT

No. 40630.

63 So.2d 417 (1953)

222 La. 661

ESSO STANDARD OIL CO. v. NESBITT et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 16, 1953.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ashton L. Stewart, Baton Rouge, and Hargrove, Guyton, Van Hook & Hargrove, Shreveport, for defendant-appellant.

John M. Madison, Wilkinson, Lewis & Wilkinson, Charles H. Blish, Shreveport, for defendants-appellees.


McCALEB, Justice.

This is an interpleader suit involving the construction and effect of a certain provision contained in a written assignment of a mineral lease. The undisputed facts disclose that, on May 27, 1940, G. G. Nesbitt, Jr., the sublessee of an oil, gas and mineral lease executed on November 16, 1936 by Edward Dupuis in favor of one George P. Reid, covering certain land situated in the Anse LaButte Oil Field in St. Martin Parish, conveyed his interest, insofar...

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