MONTET v. NICKLOS DRILLING COMPANY

No. 399.

135 So.2d 805 (1961)

William J. MONTET et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. NICKLOS DRILLING COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

December 11, 1961.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marion W. Groner, New Iberia, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Voorhies, Labbe, Voorhies, Fontenot & Leonard, by Donald Labbe, Lafayette, for defendants-appellees.

Before TATE, FRUGÉ and SAVOY, JJ.


TATE, Judge.

This is a suit to recover the damages to the plaintiffs' 1960 rice crop allegedly caused by the release of harmful waste materials from an oil well drilling site. The plaintiffs are Montet, a tenant cultivating a 76-acre rice field on shares, and his landlords, the owners of the field. The defendants are the drilling company ("Nicklos"), its liability insurer, and the corporation which had employed Nicklos to drill the well.

At the trial it was...

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