FRANKS PETROLEUM, INC. v. BABINEAUX

Nos. 16046-CA to 16048-CA.

446 So.2d 862 (1984)

FRANKS PETROLEUM, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Martiel Colvin BABINEAUX, et al., Defendants-Appellants. FRANKS PETROLEUM, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. Joe C. COLVIN, et al., Defendants-Appellees. (Two Cases).

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

February 21, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rellis P. Godfrey, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants, John A. Colvin and Mattie Sue Colvin.

Shotwell, Brown & Sperry by C.A. Martin, III, Monroe, for plaintiff-appellee, Franks Petroleum, Inc.

Walker, Holstead & Smith, Ruston, for defendants-appellees, Virginia Colvin Meadors, Clyde C. Colvin, Jr., James Harry Babineaux, Judith Babineaux Wells, Joe C. Colvin, Gerald Glen Colvin, Fred H. May, Jr., Mabel May, Harold Butler Colvin, Emmett Lee Colvin, Willis Carroll Colvin, May Larance Colvin, Luther Colvin, Douglas Colvin, Terrelle Gray Colvin, and Kerr-McGee Corp.

Before HALL, JASPER E. JONES and SEXTON, JJ.


HALL, Judge.

In this concursus proceeding brought by the operator of producing gas units, the district court resolved the dispute between two sets of record co-owners, identified as the "Group A defendants" and the "Group B defendants", by holding that the Group A defendants had acquired full title to the properties involved by acquisitive prescription based on adverse possession by them and their ancestors for more than 30 years after notice of such adverse possession...

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