Sartor v. United Gas Public Service Co.

DAWKINS, District Judge.

This suit was filed November 21, 1935, and is for an alleged excess in the value or price of gas produced by the defendant and its predecessors in title from the lands of plaintiff over what is admitted to have been paid, to wit, three cents per thousand cubic feet. The petition demands a royalty on gasoline produced from the said gas, as well as all sums deducted for severance taxes on the one-eighth interest or royalty of the plaintiffs.

Defendants have filed: First, a plea of prescription of three years under article 3538 of the Revised Civil Code; second, a motion…