Soule v. West

ROGERS, Justice.

The relators, three in number, are plaintiffs in a suit filed in the Second judicial district court in and for the parish of Claiborne. The suit is petitory in character, and involves title to an undivided one-half interest in ninety-one acres of valuable oil land situated in Claiborne parish.

The defendants, also three in number, after they were served with citations and copies of the petition, and before excepting or pleading to the merits of the suit, ruled plaintiffs into court to show cause why defendants should not obtain permission of the court to take the testimony of…