UNION OIL & GAS CORP. OF LOUISIANA v. BROUSSARD

No. 43149.

112 So.2d 96 (1958)

237 La. 660

UNION OIL & GAS CORPORATION OF LOUISIANA v. Wallace J. BROUSSARD et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing November 10, 1958.

On Second Rehearing April 27, 1959.

Rehearings Denied June 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herschel N. Knight, Jennings, Cobb & Wright, Morris Wright, New Orleans, for appellants Hawthorne, Inc., Harry E. Hawthorne, Harry R. Hawthorne and Hugh A. Hawthorne.

Plauche & Stockwell, Oliver P. Stockwell, Lake Charles, Saal & Saal, Gueydan, for appellant Wallace J. Broussard.

Walter G. Arnette, Lestage & Arnette, Jennings, for defendant-appellee J. Woodrow Waggoner.

Liskow & Lewis, Lake Charles, for appellee.

Edwards & Edwards, S. W. Plauche, Jr., Lake Charles, for Charlie M. Watkins and Claude C. Watkins, amicus curiae.


MOISE, Justice.

Plaintiff, the owner of two oil, gas, and mineral leases insofar as they affect the North Half (N ½) of Section 33, Township 10 South, Range 4 West, of lands situated in Jefferson Davis Parish, instituted this concursus proceeding, praying that the court pass upon conflicting claims as to the ownership of a 1/24th royalty interest on the oil and gas produced from a well on the property, completed by it on or about January 11, 1955. It deposited...

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