McCoy v. Hunter

This is a suit to force the defendant S. D. Hunter to comply with a written agreement to lease from plaintiff the mineral rights on certain land in Richland parish for $4,200 cash. Pending an investigation into the title to the land upon which the lease was to be accepted if the title should prove to be valid, a copy of the lease and the amount to be paid for it were deposited in escrow in the Central Savings Bank & Trust Company. The bank was cited as a defendant herein for the purpose of having it ordered to pay to plaintiff the amount deposited in escrow.

The land that it was agreed to…