Sherburne v. Iberville Land Co.

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The receiver of the Sherburne Industries, Inc., claiming that the corporation was the owner and in possession of 5,856.80 acres of land, described in his petition, sued the Iberville Land Company and the Shell Petroleum Corporation for slander of title. What was complained of as the slander of title was that the Iberville Land Company, claiming to own certain mineral rights in the land, granted and recorded an oil .and gas lease, to the Shell Petroleum Corporation. The plaintiff, in a supplemental petition, pleaded, alternatively, that whatever mineral rights the…