Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Lewis

SAVOY, Judge.

The instant case was instituted by Humble Oil Company as a concursus proceeding to determine the ownership of certain funds which it had in its possession representing the purchase price of interests in oil produced from certain described lands.

The petition of Humble alleged that by an instrument dated October 26, 1959, Ever-ard W. Marks transferred to Pierson Lewis and another party (not made a party to this litigation and not affected by the con-cursus) certain overriding royalty interest in lands situated in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. Petitioner alleged further that it had paid…