Simms v. Coastal Oil & Fuel Corp.

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a suit to have a receiver appointed' to take charge of the property belonging to-*1084a foreign corporation and situated in this state. The property is incorporeal immovable property, being an interest in an oil and gas lease on land in Acadia Parish, and a reversionary interest in the property appurtenant to the lease, including the wells, pipe lines, et cetera.

The suit is brought'under the provisions of Act 159 of 1898, which provides that the district courts throughout the state and the Civil District Court for the Parish of Orleans are empowered to appoint…