Richard v. Sohio Petroleum Co.

McCALEB, Justice.

Plaintiff brought this suit to be declared the owner of all oil and gas produced from a certain well-site located on his property, a six-acre tract in the Parish of Iberville which is burdened with a mineral lease in favor of defendants, and, alternatively, to have defendants enjoined from using his. land for the production of the oil, and for damages in the sum of $400,000.

The original defendants to the action were American Republics Corporation, the mineral lessee, and its sub-lessees, Sohio Petroleum Company and Sinclair Oil and Gas Company, the successor of Sinclair…