Legal Opinion
Holloway Gravel Co. v. McKowen
Supreme Court of Louisiana
Decided May 25, 1942No. 36518PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Justice.
By an act of sale dated April 12, 1934, Alex C. McKowen acquired from W. Carruth Jones and five other persons certain lands situated in the Parish of East Feliciana. The sale was made subject to a reservation by the vendors of nine-twentieths of all the mineral, oil and gas rights in and upon the lands conveyed. In the latter part of 1938, the Holloway Gravel Company, Inc., under an oral lease from McKowen, began to extract sand and gravel from the lands. These operations eventually resulted in this proceeding, instituted by the lessee, to have determined the rights of the…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Northern Pacific Railway Company v. SoderbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Sult v. A. Hochstetter Oil Co.West Virginia Supreme Court · 1908
- Logan v. State Gravel Co.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1925
- Hendler v. Lehigh Valley RailroadSupreme Court of Pennsylvania · 1904
- Hudson & Collins v. McGuireCourt of Appeals of Kentucky · 1920
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3Cited by48 opinions
- Di Cristina v. WeiserSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1949
- United Carbon Company v. Mississippi River Fuel Corp.Supreme Court of Louisiana · 1956
- Rudman v. DupuisSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1944
- Snow-White Roofs, Inc. v. BoucherLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1966
- Wurzlow v. Placid Oil CompanyLouisiana Court of Appeal · 1973
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