Brown v. Mayfield

92 So.2d 762 (1957)

James Herman BROWN et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees,

v.

J. Earl MAYFIELD, Defendant-Appellant.

No. 8638.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

February 5, 1957.

Meadors, Shaw & Meadors, Homer, for appellant.

Blanchard, Goldstein, Walker & O'Quin, Shreveport, for appellees.

GLADNEY, Judge.

This is a petitory action by plaintiffs to be decreed the owners of ¼th of the mineral rights hereinafter described and which were acquired by their predecessor in title, A. L. Brown, on March 21, 1934, from the present defendant, J. Earl Mayfield. The principal issue relates to a plea of…