Legal Opinion
Esso Standard Oil Co. v. George Gardiner Green
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 31, 1960No. 44204Published
1Opinion of the Court
HAMITER, Justice.
This concursus proceeding was instituted by the Esso Standard Oil Company, pursuant to the provisions of LRS 13:4811 et seq., to determine the ownership of certain funds representing the price of oil purchased by it and produced from the S. D. Cochran wells Nos. 1 and 2 which were drilled on lands located in St. Landry Parish and described in the petition.
The facts giving rise to the conflicting claims involved here, which relate to disputed overriding royalty interests totaling two-sixty-fourths of the produced oil, are as hereinafter set forth. On May 24, 1948 S. D.…
2Cases cited4 opinions
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- Barnsdall Oil Co. v. ApplegateSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1950