Legal Opinion
Lavergne v. Savoie
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 8, 1969No. 2637PublishedCited by 2 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CULPEPPER, Judge.
The plaintiff, Charles L. Lavergne, filed this suit to be declared the owner of a certain mineral royalty interest. The defendant, Ashton Savoie, is the adverse claimant of the royalty in question. From a judgment declaring Lavergne to be the owner, Savoie has appealed.
The sole issue on appeal is the legal question of whether liberative prescription of a mineral royalty interest is interrupted or merely suspended by production.
The facts stipulated by agreement of the parties show that on February 18, 1947, Charles L. Lavergne sold to Ashton Savoie 40 acres of land and the…
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- Union Oil & Gas Corp. of Louisiana v. BroussardSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1959
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