Jackson v. Hunt Oil Co.

O’NIELL, Chief Justice.

The plaintiffs are appealing from a judgment dismissing their suit on an exception of no cause or right of action. The purpose of the suit is to annul certain oil and gas leases of the defendant, so far as they affect one of two 40-acre subdivisions embraced in the leases. The tract in question is the NW1/4 of NE1/4 of Section 31, T. 21 N., R. 10 W., in Webster Parish.

For the purpose of this decision the allegations of the plaintiffs’ petition are accepted as the facts of the case.

The plaintiffs own a fractional interest, that is, 499/924 interest, in the mineral rights…