Humble Oil & Refining Co. v. Lewis

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

We granted a writ of certiorari on the petition of Pierson Lewis in order to review the judgment of the Court of Appeal, Third Circuit, reversing the judgment of the trial court rendered in his favor, in a concursus proceeding instituted by Humble Oil & Refining Company making Lewis and his estranged wife, Mrs. Janice Butler Lewis, parties defendant, to determine the ownership of $2,505.25 in its possession representing the purchase price of a one-half of interests in oil due' pursuant to an assigned royalty interest to Lewis. See, La.App., 150 So.2d 796.

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