Frost-Johnson Lumber Co. v. Nabors Oil & Gas Co.

Plaintiff, being the owner in possession of several tracts of' land in the parish of De Soto, brought seven jactitation suits against parties who were asserting title to whatever oil, gas or other minerals were in or under the lands. The complaint, in substance;'was that the claim of each defendant was, in its nature, the assertion of a real right upon the property and was therefore a slander of plaintiff’s title.

The Nabors Oil & Gas ‘Company was made defendant in each suit, because the corporation claimed title to the oil, gas and other minerals in all of the lands, and had granted a mining…