WALMSLEY v. PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION

No. 636.

144 So.2d 627 (1962)

Hughes P. WALMSLEY, Receiver of Gulf & Bayou Cook Oyster Company, Ltd., in Receivership, et al. v. PAN AMERICAN PETROLEUM CORPORATION et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied October 4, 1962.

Certiorari Granted November 13, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blanchard, Goldstein, Walker & O'Quin, Clyde W. Thurmon, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., John L. Madden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Ernest R. Eldred, Special Counsel, for State Mineral Board.

Melvin Evans, New Orleans, Charles B. Jarrett, Jr., Pittsburgh, Pa., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Victor A. Sachse, Victor A. Sachse, III, Baton Rouge, for Tidewater Oil Company.

Before REGAN, YARRUT and SAMUEL, JJ.


YARRUT, Judge.

Plaintiffs appeal from a judgment maintaining Defendants' pleas of no cause or right of action, and non-joinder of the State of Louisiana, an alleged indispensable party; contending, alternatively, that if the State be held an indispensable party, the case should be remanded to permit the State being made a party.

Plaintiffs allege they are co-owners of certain mineral lands in Plaquemines Parish, which Defendant, State Mineral Board, has leased...

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