Escoubas v. Louisiana Petroleum & Coal Oil Co.

On the fifth of October, 1865, Hilaire Escoubas and Trusión Lowell entered into an agreement in writing, with J. W. Mallet., by which it was stipulated that the latter should have “the entire, absolute and undivided control of all petroleum, mineral, oil or other similar products existing beneath the surface of the land ” owned by the former, in Calcasieu parish, and described in the first article of the agreement, and “ the right to bore, dig and mine for said petroleum or similar product, to extract the same, to prepare it for market by refining or otherwise, to transport, sell and dispose…