ALVORD v. SUN OIL COMPANY

No. 11640.

251 So.2d 659 (1971)

Horace H. ALVORD, III, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. SUN OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 8, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bethard & Bethard, by Henry W. Bethard, III, Coushatta, for plaintiff-appellant.

Oliver & Wilson, by C. McVea Oliver, Monroe, for Sun Oil Company, R. O. Roy, Robert Roy, Mrs. Corinne Roy Kelly, Charles T. McCord, Jr., Jack W. Grigsby, Jane H. Grigsby, William T. Murphy, III, and Marlin Risinger, Jr., defendants-appellees.

Shuey, Smith & Carlton, by John M. Shuey, Shreveport, La., for Anthony Oil Company and Morgan W. Walker, defendants-appellees.

Before AYRES, PRICE and HALL, JJ.


AYRES, Judge.

By this action plaintiff seeks to have decreed null and void a series of three oil, gas and mineral leases and, because of their nullity, to have them canceled and erased from the public records. The basis of this action is defendants' failure to pay royalty as specified in the leases.

Plaintiff is the owner of one-half the minerals under, and which may be produced from, a described 282.54-acre tract of land in the Red River-Bull Bayou Field...

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