Shell Oil Co. v. Minvielle

FORET, Judge.

The sole issue involved in this case is whether C.C.P. art. 1704 applies to concur-sus proceedings commenced under C.C.P. art. 4657.

This is a concursus proceeding involving certain monies derived from oil and gas production by Shell Oil Company on land located in Section 41, Township 14 South, Range 7 East, in Iberia Parish. Shell Oil Company provoked this concursus proceeding joining as defendants the Minvielle family and the State of Louisiana, through the State Mineral Board and State Land Office. The monies derived from the oil and gas production by Shell were deposited into…