Esso Standard Oil Company v. Jordan

SIMON, Justice.

Esso Standard Oil Company provoked two concursus proceedings1 to distribute royalty interests due from oil purchased by it for its pipeline, produced from two wells, both of which were drilled and operated by the same lessee under the same mineral lease within a short distance of each other on the same tract of land, known as Pin Hook Plantation, in the Parish of Tensas.

In the instant suit, plaintiff deposited in the registry of the district court the sum of $2,031.60, representing royalty interest due from oil purchased by and delivered to petitioners during the period from…