Sabatier v. Canal Oil Co.

HIGGINS, Justice.

The lessors instituted this suit to cancel the mineral lease covering one hundred arpents of land in the Little Bayou Oil Field, Iberia Parish, Louisiana, granted on April 10, 1935, alleging failure to properly develop the property and failure of consideration because of inconsequential production and, in the alternative, that the lease is null and void because it was potestative and authorized perpetual holding of a servitude.

The defendants filed exceptions of vagueness and no cause of action, which were overruled and in their answer denied the allegations of the petition,…