Brown Land & Royalty Co., Inc. v. Green

RIVES, Circuit Judge.

This suit was originally brought by the six children and sole heirs of Calvin E. Clark against Clifford H. Brown and Brown Land and Royalty Co., Inc. by petition filed in the state district court of Pointe Coupee Parish, Louisiana. It was averred that plaintiffs were owners and in possession of certain property in that parish and that defendants were slandering plaintiffs’ title to such property by claiming to own certain mineral rights therein.

The cause was removed by defendants to the U. S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana on the basis of diversity…