Furie Petroleum Co. v. SWEPI, LP

|,The State of Louisiana (“State”) appeals a ruling denying its right to intervene into these consolidated actions for declaratory judgment regarding the mineral ownership of a large tract of land. The State claims that a navigable waterway which it owns divides the tract into two parts. If established, this fact concerning the State’s waterway would directly bear upon the underlying dispute over the maintenance of a mineral servitude over the large tract which is subject to the claim of prescription of nonuse. From our review of the pleadings and the positions of all sides, we find that the…