Huckabay v. Texas Company

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari to the Court of Appeal, Second Circuit, to review its judgment affirming that of the district court in favor of plaintiffs 1 for the sum of $1,102.58, as reimbursement for one-eighth of the gas produced from a well drilled by the defendant, The Texas Company, under its lease from owners of an undivided seven-eighths mineral interest in a 636 acre tract of land in Red River Parish — title to the land and a one-eighth mineral interest therein having been acquired by plaintiffs’ ancestor in title; but rejecting the defendant’s claim that plaintiffs…