Exchange Oil & Gas Co. v. Foster

LANDRY, Judge.

This concursus proceeding invoked by Exchange Oil & Gas Company, lessee of defendant Murphy J. Foster and his co-owners of Dixie Plantation, situated in St. Mary Parish, seeks to determine ownership of oil royalties due by virtue of mineral operations conducted on the property. The dispute, between the landowners and certain royalty owners, presents the single issue, namely, whether production from a well located on a part of Dixie Plantation situated within a Commissioner’s compulsory drilling unit interrupted prescription as to the remainder of the plantation located outside…