Fontenot v. Laudeau

ODOM, Justice.

In each of the above cases, counsel for the appellees filed a motion to dismiss the appeal on the ground that this court has no jurisdiction ratione materiae.

Plaintiffs are landowners, each owning separate tracts in the same section of the Parish of Evangeline. In 1931 they executed separate mineral leases in favor of Emile Ludeau, each lease containing the usual one-eighth royalty clause. In the year 1934 each of the plaintiffs entered into a contract reciting that the grantor “does by these presents, grant, bargain, sell, convey and deliver” unto Emile Ludeau, Lawrence Ludeau…