Ryan v. Grandison Trust

PONDER, Judge.

Plaintiffs appealed the dismissal of their suit for declaratory judgment on defendant’s peremptory exception of res judicata.

The issue on appeal is whether the doctrine of res judicata bars litigation of the instant action.

We reverse and remand.

The facts are essentially undisputed. On August 29, 1929, Joseph deFuentes Harrison purchased approximately 22 thousand acres of Lafourche Parish marshland. In the Act of Sale, the vendors reserved the oil, gas and mineral rights attached to the land, which they transferred on July 22, 1930, to defendant’s ancestor in title, The Grandison…