Blankenship v. Stovall

MILLS, Judge.

This suit is brought under the provisions of Act No. 161 of 1932; plaintiff alleging that wages totaling §150 are due him for labor performed on an oil and gas well located on land leased for oil and gas development in Sabine parish, La., under a verbal agreement with defendants, Cliff Stovall and the Coats Petroleum Corporation, nonresidents of that parish. The lease, well, and equipment, including a drilling rig, were provisionally seized, plaintiff asserting his lien and making oath that, to his belief, the lease and well were about to be abandoned and the equipment sold or…