SUCCESSION OF SORAPURU v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO.

No. 87-CA-826.

529 So.2d 1372 (1988)

SUCCESSION OF Adolphe SORAPURU v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING CO., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fifth Circuit.

July 26, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Lee, New Orleans, for plaintiff-appellant.

M. Hampton Carver, William H. Bennett, III, Exxon Co., U.S.A., New Orleans, for defendants-appellees.

Before CHEHARDY, KLIEBERT and GAUDIN, JJ.


GAUDIN, Judge.

This is an appeal by succession representatives from a district court judgment maintaining a peremptory exception of no right of action. The succession representatives had sought title to property previously owned by Adolphe Sorapuru. Mr. Sorapuru, however, had lost the property in 1850. The record supports the judgment and we affirm it.

In 1841, Mr. Sorapuru paid $222.50 for 178 acres in Section 91, Township 12 South, Range 19 East of the Louisiana...

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