Atlas Oil Co. v. McCormick

The plaintiff and the defendant each claim an oil and gas lease on the same lands described in the plaintiff’s petition and situated in the parish of Terrebonne, and the purpose of this suit is to have the plaintiff’s lease vindicated and recognized and to restrain the defendant from interfering in any manner with the exercise by the plaintiff of its rights and privileges under its lease.

The lands covered by the two leases formed a part of a large body of lands eomprising approximately 600,000 acres situated in the parishes of Lafourche and Terrebonne.

On July 2.3,1006, the South Louisiana…