Fontenot v. Texaco Inc.

PUTNAM, District Judge.

MEMORANDUM OPINION

This suit, a slander of title action filed in State Court and removed here, seeks cancellation of a mineral servitude of Texaco Inc. insofar as it affects the lands of Plaintiff.

The servitude in question was created on May 13, 1924 when The Texas Company (of Texas), ancestor in title of Texaco Inc., sold to E. B. Norman and Company a large area of land, in one continuous body, reserving the subsoil or subjacent land, and the mineral content thereof, below the depth of 500 feet from the surface of the earth.

After answering, Defendant filed a motion for…