Lee v. Goodwin

The question presented by this case (La. App., 174 So.2d 651) is whether the ten-year liberative prescription applicable to a mineral royalty interest is interrupted or suspended by the inclusion of the lands upon which the royalty interest is owing into a unit on which a well capable of producing is located, but from which there has been no production.

I am of the opinion that the simple inclusion of lands affected by an outstanding mineral royalty interest within a unit formed by the Commissioner of Conservation on which a well capable of producing has been drilled is not enough to interrupt…