Shell Oil Co. v. Hebert

SARTAIN, Judge.

These three consolidated concursus proceedings were instituted by Shell Oil Company and Pan American Petroleum, oil, gas and mineral lessees, to determine the right to funds derived from producing units located in the “H. H. Sand of the South Chauvin Field,” Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana. The rival claimants, as hereinafter noted, are designated as the Babin Heirs and the Hebert-Malbrough Heirs. From judgments in favor of the latter group, the Babin Heirs have appealed. We affirm.

The properties pertinent to this litigation are now known as Lots 4, 5, and 6 in Sections 25 and 26,…