Cheramie v. Stiles

PONDER, Justice.

The defendant appeals from a judgment annulling a mineral deed insofar as it af fects a one-fourth (14) of an undivided one-third (%) mineral interest in a tract of land located in Lafourche Parish.

The plaintiff executed a mineral lease in favor of D. W. O’Hern on June 13, 1936 covering a tract of land containing approximately sixty arpents. On March 1, 1938, the plaintiff employed Numa F. Mon-tet, an attorney, to bring suit' and take whatever steps that were necessary to cancel the lease. There had been no production on the land up to that time and the plaintiff had not…