Southwest Natural Production Company v. Anderson

McCALEB, Justice.

This is a concursus proceeding brought by the mineral lessee of all claimants to the royalty rights in production allocable to a certain forty acre tract in Lincoln Parish. This tract is included in a drilling and proration unit known as the “McCrary Unit”, and plaintiff is seeking a judicial determination of the ownership of funds held by it which represent royalty due the owner of the forty acres resulting from the mineral production of the McCrary Unit. The opposing claimants to the funds deposited by plaintiff in the registry of the court are, on the one hand, the legal…