Touchet v. Humble Oil & Refining Company

HUNTER, District Judge.

Touchet seeks cancellation of an oil, gas and mineral lease on land in Acadia Parish, Louisiana. The lease was granted by Touchet to Duson on February 21, 1955. The lease was subsequently assigned to defendant and stands in defendant’s name upon the records. The land was made part of a voluntary unit of 160 acres by instrument dated June 26, 1957, and a unit well was completed as a producer, and plaintiff was paid royalties monthly by defendant from the date of the production of the unit until March of 1959, when the Commissioner of Conservation issued an order…