Calhoun v. Gulf Refining Company

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

This suit for a declaratory judgment, as authorized in certain instances by R.S. 13:4231 et seq., 1 arose because of conflicting claims of ownership to leasehold rights, in a certain tract of land comprising approximately 298.19 acres in Catahoula. Parish belonging to plaintiff, Mrs. Stella Calhoun, and asserted on the one'hand by Mrs. Calhoun and the remaining plaintiffs, R. A. Campbell and Dorris Ballew,' Inc., as Mrs. Calhoun’s lessee under an oil, gas and mineral lease, and on the other .hand-by defendants Gulf Refining Company, and H. L. Hunt, the owners by mesne…