Case ID: so2d_98/html/0250-01.html
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Author: {"author": "SIMON, Justice. FOURNET, Chief Justice.", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

233 La. 954
    ESSO STANDARD OIL COMPANY v. STATE of Louisiana et al.
    No. 42987.
    Supreme Court of Louisiana.
    April 1, 1957.
    On Rehearing Nov. 12, 1957.
    Jack P. F. Gremillion, Atty. Gen., George M. Ponder, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Edward M. Carmouche, Sp. Asst. Atty. Gen., Marc Dupuy, Jr., Sp. Counsel to Atty. Gen., H. M. Holder, Sp. Asst, to Atty. Gen., for defendants-appellants.
    Taylor, Porter, Brooks, Fuller & Phillips, Baton Rouge, Blanchard, Goldstein, Walker & O’Quin, Shreveport, Dale, Richardson & Dale, Vidalia, for defendants-appellees.
   SIMON, Justice.

This is one of the two concursus proceedings provoked by the Esso Standard Oil Company wherein are cited the State of Louisiana, through the Louisiana State Mineral Board and Register of the State Land Office. The issues herein presented are the same as those involved in the case of Esso Standard Oil Company v. Jones, 233 La. 915, 98 So.2d 236, both cases having been previously consolidated for purposes of trial and appeal.

Accordingly, for the reasons assigned in the case of Esso Standard Oil Company v. Jones, it is ordered, adjudged and decreed that there be judgment rejecting and dismissing the claim of the State of Louisiana, the Louisiana State Mineral Board and the Register of the State Land Office to the funds.

It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that the funds deposited into the Registry of the District Court by plaintiffs herein be distributed and paid to the private claimants in the fractional proportion set out in the formal judgment of the district court.

It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that there be judgment in favor of' the Esso Standard Oil Company and against all claimants in this suit, relieving Esso-Standard Oil Company of any liability to-them with respect to the money in the Registry of the District Court hereby ordered’ distributed.

It is further ordered, adjudged and decreed that all court cost be paid out of the-funds so deposited.

Judgment affirmed.

HAWTHORNE, J., absent.

On Rehearing

FOURNET, Chief Justice.

For the reasons assigned, on rehearing,, in the case of Esso Standard Oil Company v. Jones, 233 La. 915, 98 So.2d 236 (with which this case was consolidated for purposes of trial and appeal), our original decree herein is reinstated as the final judgment of this Court.