Midstates Petroleum, LLC v. State Mineral & Energy Board

COOKS, Judge.

bThis appeal involves the title to minerals underlying a forty-acre tract of immovable property located in Beauregard Parish. Appellant in this matter argues the trial court erred in granting appellees’ motion for summary judgment finding appel-lees were the legal owners of the minerals underlying the subject property. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The underlying facts in this ease are not in-dispute. ■ In-1858, the State of Louisiana sold a piece of land to John Laidlaw. The *1050State later determined it did not own just title to the land sold to…