Henry v. Gulf Refining Co. of Louisiana

STATEMENT BY THE COURT.

Appellant brought this suit in the circuit court against appellees to recover the possession of certain lands described in the complaint under a mineral lease, and to recover damages for the gas and oil taken from said lands and appropriated by appellees to their own use. The court sustained a general demurrer to the complaint, and dismissed the action because appellant refused to plead further.

This court held that the allegations of the complaint, with the necessary inferences arising from the facts alleged in it, rendered it indefinite and uncertain, but that the…