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LUDEAU v. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY

No. 41593.

78 So.2d 170 (1955)

226 La. 1053

Emile LUDEAU et al. v. CONTINENTAL OIL COMPANY.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 14, 1955.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Atlee P. Steckler, New Orleans, Jack C. Fruge, Ville Platte, Joseph A. Loret, Baton Rouge, of counsel, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Ward T. Jones, Houston, Tex., Liskow & Lewis, Lake Charles, for defendant-appellee.

McCALEB, Justice.

Plaintiffs are appealing from the dismissal of their suit for $372,000 damages, which they allegedly sustained as a result of the failure of defendant, Continental Oil Company, to obtain production from an oil well drilled in the Ville Platte oil field area during 1939, it being averred that it deliberately and fraudulently abandoned the well in order to deprive plaintiffs of their interest therein. The action, which was instituted in 1947, is founded...

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