Bailey v. Porter-Wadley Lumber Co.

PORTERIE, District Judge.

Plaintiff alleges that he is the owner of and in actual physical possession of N. E. ¼ of S. W. ¼ and S. E. ¼ of N. W. *26¼ of Sec. 29, Tp. 23 N., R. 9 W., Webster Parish, Louisiana, and seeks to cancel an oil and gas lease dated November 29, 1933, executed by defendants in favor of the Louisiana Oil and Refining Company, together with declaration of ownership filed by the defendants November 6, 1936, recorded in Volume 113, page 428.

The plaintiff pleads the prescriptions of ten years acquirendi causa and ten years liberandi causa. The prayer of the petition is that the…