Ida Marie Cutler Lyons, Etc. v. Franklin Lee Fisher and Hunt Oil Company

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This appeal presents two questions: (1) Whether a 1968 sale of a usufruct for ten dollars and “other good and valuable consideration” was a disguised reservation of a usufruct in violation of an earlier version of Louisiana Civil Code article 1533?; and (2) Whether, under the Louisiana Civil and Mineral Codes, a nonowner’s conveyance of land and reservation of a mineral servitude both became effective when the nonowner inherited the property? Because we agree with the plaintiffs that both questions must be answered in the affirmative, we reverse the district court’s…