HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY v. LEWIS

No. 746.

150 So.2d 796 (1963)

HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Pierson LEWIS, Defendant-Appellee, and Janice Butler Lewis, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Dissenting Opinion March 11, 1963.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1963.

Certiorari Granted April 30, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Burglass & Burglass by Cecil M. Burglass, Metairie, for defendant-appellant.

John P. Everett, Peter R. Monrose, Jr., W. J. McAnelly, Jr., New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellee.

Thomas M. McBride, III, Arabi, for defendant-appellee.

Before SAVOY, HOOD and CULPEPPER, JJ.


SAVOY, Judge.

The instant case was instituted by Humble Oil Company as a concursus proceeding to determine the ownership of certain funds which it had in its possession representing the purchase price of interests in oil produced from certain described lands.

The petition of Humble alleged that by an instrument dated October 26, 1959, Everard W. Marks transferred to Pierson Lewis and another party (not made a party to this litigation and not affected by the...

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