MIDDLETON v. CALIFORNIA COMPANY

No. 44480.

112 So.2d 704 (1959)

237 La. 1039

Mrs. Hattie Larkin MIDDLETON, Mrs. Dorothy Middleton Burguieres, and Fleming Plantations, An Ordinary Partnership Composed of Douglas R. Fleming, Calvin A. Fleming, II, Georgia Fleming Myers and Lou Fleming Reed v. CALIFORNIA COMPANY et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

June 1, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, Sumter D. Marks, Jr., John G. Weinmann,

New Orleans, Louis H. Marrero, III, Marrero, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, Eugene D. Saunders, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Burke & Hopkins, Harry McCall, Jr., New Orleans, for appellees.


McCALEB, Justice.

This is a suit to secure partial cancellation of an oil, gas and mineral lease which was granted in January 1937 to C. A. Kelly of Houston, Texas by the predecessors in title of Fleming Plantations, an ordinary partnership composed of Douglas R. Fleming, Calvin A. Fleming, II, Georgia Fleming Myers and Lou Fleming Reed. Kelly subsequently assigned the lease to The California Company, the principal defendant herein. The lease covers some 4,600 contiguous...

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