Porter-Wadley Lumber Co. v. Bailey

HOLMES, Circuit Judge.. Alleging ownership of a certain tract of land in Webster Parish, Louisiana, and prescriptive title to the minerals thereunder, Bailey filed this suit in the state court for slander of title. His petition prayed for cancellation of an affidavit filed by the appellants, Porter-Wadley Lumber Company, in liquidation, J. K. Wadley, Mrs, Lillian J. Porter, Margaret Porter, Mrs. W. R. Grim, Emaline Grim Fuller, Loretta Grim Thomas, and Joe M. Wilson, in the 'conveyance records of said parish, which purported to show them as owners of an outstanding mineral interest in said…