Mt. Forest Fur Farms of America, Inc. v. Cockrell

OVERTON, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment sustaining an exception of no cause of action in a suit to recover $50,000 paid by the Gulf Refining Company to defendant on account of a mineral lease, and for an accounting of such other sums as defendant may have received in the granting of the lease, or for extensions thereof.

The facts out of which the suit grows, as appears from the petition, are that in April, 1927, defendant sold to a corporation, styled the Mt. Forest Fur Farm, a 127/150 undivided-interest in a 52,000-acre tract of marsh land in Plaquemines parish-, reserving to…