Cockrell v. Moran Corporation of the South

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

Ernest Cockrell and others sued a Texas corporation, called The Moran Corporation of the South# and its local attorney, for slander of title to certain mineral royalty interests in a large area of land in Plaquemines Parish. ' In response to a supplemental petition of the plaintiffs the judge appointed a curator ad hoc to represent the corporation. Thereafter the suit was dismissed on the plaintiffs’ motion; and subsequently the lawyer who had been appointed curator ad hoc demanded of the corporation a fee of $2,500 for his services. The corporation, considering the…