CORMIER v. FERGUSON

No. 4317.

92 So.2d 507 (1957)

J. Collins CORMIER et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. John B. FERGUSON, Sr., Defendant-Appellee.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

February 4, 1957.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dubuisson & Dubuisson, Opelousas, for appellants.

Liskow & Lewis, Lake Charles, John D. Edwards, Opelousas, for appellee.


TATE, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from dismissal of their suit to be declared the owners of a certain 1/32nd (or ¼th of the landowner's 1/8th) interest in the minerals produced from an 175 acre tract of land owned by them in St. Landry. At the time of suit in 1949, based upon a 1926 deed defendant was receiving payments in that proportion of the production from oil and gas wells situated on said property.

Primarily this suit involves a determination of whether...

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