LEITER MINERALS, INC. v. CALIFORNIA CO.

No. 45527.

132 So.2d 845 (1961)

241 La. 915

LEITER MINERALS, INC. v. CALIFORNIA CO., Allen L. Lobrano and Mrs. Ethel M. Fontennelle Lobrano, Individually and as Natural Tutrix of Her Minor Children, Robert Leo Lobrano and Karen Katherine Lobrano.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied October 4, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Plauché & Plauché S. W. Plauche, Jr., Lake Charles, for plaintiff-applicant.

Charles D. Marshall, Eugene D. Saunders, New Orleans, for defendants-respondents.

Tucker, Bronson & Martin, H. M. Holder, Shreveport, as amicus curiae.


HAWTHORNE, Justice.

On December 21, 1938, Thomas Leiter sold to the United States of America a tract of land in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, containing 8,711 acres more or less, for a recited consideration of $25,000.1 In this act of sale there is the following mineral reservation:

"The Vendor reserves from this sale the right to mine and remove, or to grant to others the right to mine and remove, all oil, gas and other valuable...

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