Sittig v. Dalton

FOURNET, Justice.

This is an appeal from a judgment maintaining defendants’ exception of no cause and no right of action and dismissing plaintiffs’ suit to set aside five certain oil, gas, and mineral leases affecting their respective properties, executed by them in favor of the defendant H. E. Dalton on the ground that the leases had expired under their terms.

The allegations of fact in the petition which, for the purposes of disposing of the exceptions, must be accepted as true are that Dalton on January 23, 1936, acquired five oil, gas, and mineral leases in Acadia ■ Parish from ■ the…