ROHNER v. AUSTRAL OIL EXPLORATION COMPANY, INC.

No. 4655.

104 So.2d 253 (1958)

Murphy G. ROHNER, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. AUSTRAL OIL EXPLORATION COMPANY, Inc., et al., Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

June 30, 1958.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent & Denegre, John V. Baus, New Orleans, for appellant.

Ponder & Ponder, Amite, for appellees.


ELLIS, Judge.

Plaintiff is seeking damages which he alleged were caused or done to his crops and land by the defendant oil company when it drilled or explored for oil on his property in Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana. No service of citation and petition was ever made on the defendant McGhee, however the oil company filed an answer admitting the existence of an oil and gas lease under which it drilled a well upon the plaintiff...

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