Byrd v. Forgotson

The surviving widow in community and legal heirs of the late W. J. Byrd instituted a jactitation or slander of title suit against the defendants, J. M. Forgotson, J. E. Smitherman, Mrs. Mabel M. Palmer, John R. Palmer, Nellie Norton, the Atlantic Refining Company, and the Triangle Drilling Company, Inc., to have cancelled and erased from the conveyance records of Claiborne Parish the instruments whereunder Byrd transferred and the defendants procured the mineral rights affecting the SE1/4 of the NW1/4 of Section 17, T. 19 N., R. 5 W., Claiborne Parish, on the ground that this mineral interest…