Rock Island, A. & L. R. Co. v. Gournay

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiff railroad company claiming as the fee simple owner in possession of a certain strip of land instituted this slander of title action against the heirs of Octave Ardoin and F. C. Fontenot, the mineral lessee of them. The heirs and their other mineral lessee, Stanolind Oil & Gas Company, as intervenor, filed pleadings denying that the plaintiff had a fee simple title to the land, and averring that it had a grant of a right-of-way only, that the heirs were the owners of the fee simple title, subject to plaintiff’s servitude or right-of-way, and that the mineral lease…