Brown Land & Royalty Co. v. Pickett

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

The plaintiff, Brown Land and Royalty Company, Inc., having lost in the federal courts 1 the converted petitory action wherein it sought to be decreed the owner of half of all the oil, gas, and other minerals in and under some 272 acres of land in Pointe Coupee Parish, 2 instituted this petitory action against the same parties involved in the federal suit 3 again seeking recognition as the owner of this identical mineral interest. It prosecutes this appeal from a judgment of the lower court dismissing its suit on a plea of res judicata and exceptions of no cause and no…