Tenneco Oil Co. v. Hines

JASPER E. JONES, Judge.

This is a concursus proceeding to determine the owners of mineral royalties for production from an eighty acre tract of land in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. The con-cursus was commenced on September 1, 1977, by Tenneco Oil Company. The matter was tried in July, 1987, after voluminous filings by the parties. The trial judge rendered judgment recognizing the descendants of the brothers and sisters of the original owner of the property and their assignees as owners of various fractional interests. This appeal followed.

The evidence shows that Andrew White, Jr., acquired the…