International Paper Co. v. Louisiana Central Lumber Co.

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

This is a jactitation suit, in which the plaintiff, being the owner in possession of' approximately 10,000 acres of land, avers that the defendants are slandering its title to the oil and gas rights and other mineral rights in the land. The plaintiff claims to have possession of the mineral rights by having possession of the land itself, and pleads that whatever mineral rights the-defendants may have had have become extinguished by nonuse, by the prescription, of ten years liberandi causa.

One of the defendants, namely, Louisiana Central Lumber Company, in its answer,…