TENNECO OIL CO. v. HOUSTON

No. 13662.

364 So.2d 1056 (1978)

TENNECO OIL COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Fred L. HOUSTON et al., Defendants-Appellees, Ellis Harp, Jr. et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied December 13, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nesib Nader, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants Ellis Harp, Jr., et al.

Colvin, Hunter, Brown, Plummer & Means by Robert E. Plummer, Mansfield, for defendants-appellees Fred L. Houston, et al.

Naff, Kennedy, Goodman, Stephens, Donovan & Parnell by Harry S. Stephens, Shreveport, for plaintiff-appellee Tenneco Oil Co.

David A. Rothell, Mansfield, Curator Ad Hoc for defendant-appellee.

Claude R. Sledge, Mansfield, Curator Ad Hoc for defendants-appellees.

W. T. Pegues, Mansfield, Curator Ad Hoc for defendants-appellees.

Herman L. Lawson, Mansfield, Curator Ad Hoc for defendants-appellees.

Beverly Kinchen, in pro. per.

Before PRICE, MARVIN and JONES, JJ.


PRICE, Judge.

This is an appeal from a concursus proceeding initiated by Tenneco Oil Company to determine the parties entitled to mineral royalties on a 40.2 acre tract described as the Southwest Quarter of the Southeast Quarter (SW ¼ of SE ¼) Section Fourteen (14), Township Fifteen (15) North, Range Thirteen (13) West, DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. This appeal is concerned only with the conflicting claims of a group of defendants referred to as the Harp group...

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