Browne v. Loriaux

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, C. J.:

This action grew out of a dispute between joint owners of two producing oil leases as to the right to control the operation. The dispute ripened into a request for relief by way of partition. The plaintiff (Phoebe Harrington Browne) prevailed in the district court and defendants (Francine and Eva Loriaux) have appealed.

The allegations of the pleadings, highly summarized, are as follows;

Plaintiff in the first count of her petition alleges that she is the owner of a two-thirds working interest in two mineral leases on the Southwest Quarter…