Reynaud v. Bullock

ROGERS, Justice.

The question presented on this appeal is whether plaintiff is entitled to a one-sixteenth instead of a one-thirty-second royalty on the oil produced from 58 acres of land situated in the Little Bayou Oil Field in the Parish of Iberia.

The record shows that, in the year 1912, the plaintiff Hector F. Reynaud, acquired 58 acres of swamp or low land in the Parish of Iberia. On October 16, 1916, plaintiff executed a mineral lease covering the land to Gorge J. Sabatier. On December 6, 1916, plaintiff sold to Arthur Schexnayder an undivided one-fifth interest in the minerals.…