Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Streetman

CRAIN, Judge.

Defendant-Appellants, known as “Group B” are one of four groups of defendants, comprising nearly a hundred individuals who were made defendants in a concursus proceeding initiated by the Humble Oil and Refining Co. At stake is the ownership of mineral rights and royalty payments to certain tracts of land in Assumption Parish.

Judgment was rendered in favor of the “Group A” defendants. The court found that their ancestors in title had acquired the land through the acquisitive prescriptions of 10 and 30 years dating back to 1910 when they went into possession of it. Only the “Group…