FREELAND v. SUN OIL COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 5906.

184 F.Supp. 754 (1959)

Barton W. FREELAND, C. J. Freeland, Jr., Bertrand N. Sweeney, Jr., Mrs. Etta Stamm Sweeney, Howard Kevin Sweeney, Mrs. Ethel Freeland Darden, John Ed. Freeland, Paul B. Freeland, Mrs. Mary Etta Sweeney Johnston, and First National Bank of Crowley v. SUN OIL COMPANY and Cities Service Oil Company, Sohio Petroleum Company, Intervenor.

United States District Court W. D. Louisiana, Lake Charles Division.

March 14, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiffs.

Liskow & Lewis, Lake Charles, La., for defendants and intervenor.


HUNTER, District Judge.

Notwithstanding the voluminous documentary evidence appearing in the record, this suit is not complicated insofar as the basic issues and facts are concerned.

Five oil, gas and mineral leases were granted by the plaintiffs affecting separately owned tracts in the Egan Field of Acadia Parish, Louisiana. Plaintiffs in the case are the lessors or the successors in title to the lessors who granted oil, gas and mineral leases now held by...

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