LIGHT v. CROWSON WELL SERVICE, INC.

No. 12342.

299 So.2d 869 (1974)

James Millard LIGHT et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. CROWSON WELL SERVICE, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees, and Sallie H. Sentell et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 4, 1974.

Dissenting Opinion on Rehearing, September 11, 1974.

Writ Granted November 8, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Goode & Goode by J. Philip Goode, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants, Sallie H. Sentell, and others.

Bodenheimer, Jones, Klotz & Simmons by David Klotz, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants, Robert L. Efurd, Jr., and others and Frontier Oil Corp.

H. Alston Johnson, III, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants, Charles D. Beard, Jr., and others.

Cook, Clark, Egan, Yancey & King by Clarence L. Yancey, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee, Falco, Inc.

Feist, Schober & Howell by James Fleet Howell, Shreveport, for defendants-appellees, Crowson Well Service, Inc., and others.

Dixon, Thomas & Fleming by Neil Dixon, J. William Fleming, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellees, James Millard Light, and others.

Before BOLIN, PRICE and HALL, JJ.


Rehearing En Banc Denied September 4, 1974.

PRICE, Judge.

This appeal involves the interpretation of the conveyance clause in two mineral deeds which describes the interests sold by a fraction, and thereafter declares the intent to convey a specific number of mineral acres which conflicts with the fractional interest first expressed.

On June 10, 1963, Etta May Baxley, the owner of an undivided one-third fee interest in a tract of land in Sections 22...

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