Gulf Refining Co. v. Goode

HAMITER, Justice.

In this concursus proceeding, instituted by the Gulf Refining Company for the purpose of having judicially determined the ownership of the proceeds of 1/64 of the oil produced under its lease on a certain tract of land in Beauregard Parish, the landowner, J. B. Ferguson, Jr., is disputing the claims of numerous other persons whose rights flow from a mineral royalty reservation made by a Mrs. Edna Gibson, their author in title.

The trial court, in sustaining a plea of ten years’ prescription liberandi causa directed by the landowner against that reservation, decreed Ferguson to…