Ruston State Bank & Trust Co. v. Crystal Oil Co.

NORRIS, Judge.

Plaintiff Ruston State Bank and its mineral lessee filed a petitory action claiming ownership of a tract of land in Jackson Parish. Defendants were Crystal Oil Company, lessee of the tract by virtue of mineral leases from the adverse claimants, and the unopened successions of the three original adverse claimants. Crystal Oil excepted on the grounds that its individual mineral lessors were indispensable parties. The court-appointed representatives of the unopened successions also excepted on the grounds that the succession administrators were indispensable parties. The trial…