Scott v. Magnolia Petroleum Co.

ROGERS, Justice.

This suit was brought by Richard C. Scott against a number of individuals and the Magnolia Petroleum Company, which is made the principal defendant. Plaintiff seeks to be decreed the owner of a one-sixteenth mineral interest, free of a mineral lease held by the petroleum company, in 180 acres of land situated in the Eola Oil Field of the Parish of Avoyelles. The defendants, in addition to the petroleum company, are the record owners of the property and of mineral and royalty rights therein.

The facts are substantially as follows: On August 13, 1935, Oscar Q. Foster, then the…