Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit June 27, 1957, 16433 (Billeaud Planters, Inc. v. Union Oil Company of California)

BORAH, Circuit Judge.

Appellants, Billeaud Planters, Inc. and others

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who were joint owners of seven-eighths of the mineral rights in and under a 320-acre tract of land in Tigre Lagoon Field, Vermilion Parish, Louisiana, brought suit in the district court against their mineral lessee, Union Oil Company of California, to recover damages for drainage of gas from the “C” sand underlying their land,