Smith v. Southern Kraft Corporation

HAMITER, Justice.

Plaintiffs, who are the sole heirs of decedents P. A. Smith and his wife, Mrs. Donah Risher Smith, seek in this action to be declared the owners of a 20-acre tract of land ■described as the north half of southwest quarter of southeast quarter (N.% of S.W. % of S.E.14), Section 12, Township 10 North, Range 2 East, LaSalle Parish, Louisiana. Those impleaded as defendants are the Southern Kraft Corporation, the Louisiana Central Oil and Gas Company, and the Arkansas Fuel Oil Company.

The district court, following a trial of the merits of the case, held that the property belonged…