AMOS v. WAGGONER

No. 42188.

85 So.2d 58 (1956)

229 La. 134

Jannie Neal AMOS v. J. Woodrow WAGGONER.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

January 16, 1956.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H. Minor Pipes, Houma, Tucker & Schonekas, New Orleans, for defendant-appellant.

Elton A. Darsey, Houma, for plaintiff-appellee.


McCALEB, Justice.

This is a suit for cancellation of a mineral lease because of its termination by the lessee's failure to pay delay rentals. Proceeding under R.S. 30:102, plaintiff also seeks recovery of her attorney's fee in the sum of $500. There was judgment for plaintiff as prayed for in the trial court and defendant has appealed.

The undisputed facts of the case are that plaintiff, an uneducated colored woman, acquired a 15-acre tract of land in Terrebonne...

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