State v. Texas Co.

McCALEB, Justice.

The State of Louisiana has taken this appeal from a judgment dismissing its suit upon exceptions filed by the defendants, the Texas Company and Carroll S. Mayer, which assailed the authority of the Attorney General and his Special Assistants to file and prosecute the action on its behalf. The petition is very lengthy and involves the right of the State to recover certain mineral lands which are now in the possession of the Texas Company as assignee of Mayer under a mineral lease executed in Mayer’s favor by the Governor in 1928. The main object of the suit is for a judgment…