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STATE EX REL. SHIELDS v. SOUTHPORT PETROLEUM CORPORATION OF DEL.

No. 20450.

78 So.2d 201 (1955)

STATE ex rel. Fred SHIELDS v. SOUTHPORT PETROLEUM CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Orleans.

Rehearing Denied March 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edwin W. Edwards, Crowley, for plaintiff-appellant.

Clay & Coleman, James J. Coleman, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee.

REGAN, Judge.

This is an appeal by the plaintiff, Fred Shields, from a judgment in favor of the defendant, Southport Petroleum Corporation of Delaware, dismissing his suit for failure to take any steps in the prosecution thereof for a period of five years.

This suit was filed by the plaintiff on April 6, 1942. Thereafter several supplemental petitions were filed by the plaintiff and an effort was made to place the case on the trial docket, although the defendant...

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