Union Producing Co. v. Martin

HAMITER, Justice.

This action by Union Producing Company and three other suits by United Gas Corporation, United Gas Pipeline Company and Esso Standard Oil Company (Numbered 43,609, 43,610, 43,611, respectively, on the docket of this court), 236 La. 1069, 1070, 1071, 110 So.2d 103, 103, 104 involve the identical legal issue and were consolidated in the district court for trial. All were instituted under the Louisiana Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act for the purpose of determining whether the foreign corporation plaintiffs could continue to do business in Louisiana without the payment of…