TENNECO OIL COMPANY v. HOUSTON

No. 63777.

372 So.2d 1194 (1979)

TENNECO OIL COMPANY v. Fred L. HOUSTON et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied July 27, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nesib Nader, Shreveport, for defendants-applicants Ellis Harp, Jr., Anether Harp Hall, Dorether Harp, Jimmy Ray Harp.

Robert E. Plummer, Colvin, Hunter, Brown, Plummer & Means, Mansfield, for defendants-respondents Fred L. Houston & Eleanor H. Houston.


DIXON, Justice.

This concursus proceeding was brought by Tenneco Oil Company to determine the ownership of a fourth of the oil and gas royalties under mineral leases. The royalties involved are modest in amount, and are attributable to a forty acre tract of land (SW/4 of SE/4 of Section 14, Township 15 North, Range 13 West) in DeSoto Parish which was unitized with other lands on which the producing well is located.

There was judgment in the district court...

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