Alvord v. Sun Oil Co.

AYRES, Judge.

By this action plaintiff seeks to have decreed null and void a series of three oil, gas and mineral leases and, because of their nullity, to have them canceled and erased from the public records. The basis of this action is defendants’ failure to pay royalty as specified in the leases.

Plaintiff is the owner of one-half the minerals under, and which may be produced from, a described 282.54-acre tract of land in the Red River-Bull Bayou Field of Red River Parish, which interest was acquired subject to the aforesaid leases executed by plaintiff’s predecessors in title. The land…