PLACID OIL COMPANY v. TAYLOR

No. 4453.

291 So.2d 892 (1974)

PLACID OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff and Appellant, v. Watson TAYLOR et al., Defendants and Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 11, 1974.

Writ Granted May 31, 1974.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herschel M. Downs, Shreveport, for plaintiff-appellant.

G. F. Thomas, Jr., Sam J. Friedman, Makar & Whitaker by John Makar, Natchitoches, Robert J. Donovan, Shreveport, Daniel T. Murchison, Sam Nelken, Natchitoches, Luther S. Montgomery, Shreveport, for defendants-appellees.

Before HOOD, CULPEPPER and MILLER, JJ.


CULPEPPER, Judge.

This is a concursus proceeding by Placid Oil Company to determine the ownership of certain mineral and royalty interests in two 20-acre tracts. Placid lists 36 claimants, 35 of whom are heirs of Raford (Rafe) Taylor and his wife, Amanda Demery Nash Taylor, and of Watson Taylor and his surviving spouse, Nancy Williams Taylor, hereinafter referred to collectively as the "Taylor heirs". The other claimant is Mrs. Betty Beason.

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