Magnolia Petroleum Co. v. Boudreaux

HAMITER, Justice.

*411This concursus proceeding, provoked by Magnolia Petroleum Company for the purpose of determining to whom payment is due for gas and gas distillate royalties derived from a well drilled by it, presents a title dispute between heirs of Nathaniel Vincent (on the one hand) and heirs of Josephine Vincent Wing (on the other hand) over a one-tenth interest in and to the West Half of Section 18, Township 14 South, Range 10 West, in Cameron Parish. Both sets of claimants assert title from a common ancestor — one Simeon Vincent who obtained a patent to the 320 acre tract in 1882 from…