California Co. v. Price

If one will examine a map of the State of Louisiana, he will find off the southeast coast of the Parish of Plaquemines an arm of the sea bearing the name of Grand Bay. In this bay there were located at the time this suit was tried eight producing oil wells. The ownership of the accumulated oil royalty from these wells, amounting to many thousands of dollars, has provoked this concursus proceeding, instituted by The California Company. The claimants are the State of Louisiana on one side and a large group of individuals on the other who derive their title from one John Beckwith.

Grand Bay is…