Long Prairie Levee District v. Wall

This is a bill in equity by which John W. Wall and J. B. Arnold, Jr., seek to quiet their title to an undivided fifteen-fortieths interest in the oil, gas, and other minerals underlying a forty-acre tract. The appellant levee district is the principal defendant and bases its claim of ownership upon its purchase of the forty acres in foreclosure suits brought for the collection of delinquent levee assessments. The chancellor held that the improvement district sales did not affeet the plaintiffs’ interest in the minerals; the decree granted the relief sought.

On December 24, 1938, Wall and…