State v. Humble Oil a Refining Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

' The State of Louisiana brought this suit against the Humble Oil & Refining Company and the Cameron Parish School Board to be recognized as the owner of twenty regular sixteenth section lands situated in Cameron Parish, and to have decreed that none of the sections is affected by two mineral leases acquired by the oil company •from the original lessees.

In support of its action, the State asserts that section 30 of Act 100 of 1922, authorizing parish school boards to grant mineral leases on sixteenth section lands, was repealed by implication by Act 93 of 1936, as amended by…