Fomby v. Columbia County Development Co.

These seven consolidated suits were instituted in 1922 for the purpose of annulling, avoiding, or declaring forfeited seven mineral leases granted in 1919 to the Columbia County Development Company. The leases were granted by the plaintiffs whose names appear as set forth above. Two of the plaintiffs, Julius T. and Huey P. Long, whose names do not appear above, have joined in the suits as the owners of a one-third of a seven-eighths undivided interest in and to the mineral rights in each tract of land upon which the leases involved herein were granted.

The grounds alleged for annulling or…