Esso Standard Oil Company v. Jones

SIMON, Justice.

This is one of two concursus proceedings provoked by the Esso Standard Oil Company, the purchaser of oil from two wells, wherein are cited the State of Louisiana, through the Louisiana State Mineral Board and Registry of the State Land Office as the owner of the bed of the Mississippi River by virtue of its inherent sovereignty, and Hunter Jones, et ah, the riparian or littoral owners to assert their respective claims to the funds deposited in the Registry of the Court.

Both suits, presenting a similarity of parties and issues, were consolidated for trial in the district court.…