White v. Hodges

HIGGINS, Justice.

The plaintiffs, as owners of one hundred ninety-nine acres of land located in Claiborne Parish, Louisiana, which they acquired by inheritance from their father and mother (E. C. White and Mrs. Addie White) and by subsequent partition among themselves, instituted six slander of title suits against the defendants, alleging that they were slandering the plaintiffs’ title by claiming to own a large part of the minerals under this tract of land, by virtue of six mineral deeds and subsequent transfers by the grantees, the last of the mineral servitudes having been granted by the…