Amerada Petroleum Corporation v. Murphy

FOURNET, Justice.

The Amerada Petroleum Corporation, deraigning its title to an oil and gas lease affecting three tracts of land comprising approximately 160 acres in Acadia Parish from the purchaser of the property in fee at a partition sale, instituted this suit to have cancelled and erased from the public records two oil, gas, and mineral leases executed in favor of O. G. Murphy, the defendant, by some of the co-heirs prior to the institution of the partition proceedings, alleging that such leases were extinguished by the partition sale and constitute a cloud on its title.

The defendant, a…