BONSALL v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY

No. 19242.

300 F.2d 150 (1962)

Lucia BONSALL et al., Appellants, v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY et al., Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1962.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. B. Jones, Jr., Cameron, La., C. A. Miller, Jr., Lake Charles, La., Jones & Jones and Jerry G. Jones, Cameron, La., of counsel, for appellants.

W. J. McAnelly, Jr., New Orleans, La., Oliver P. Stockwell, Lake Charles, La., Bernard J. Caillouet, New Orleans, La., Plauche & Stockwell, Lake Charles, La., of counsel, for appellees.

Before JONES, BROWN and BELL, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM.

This appeal challenges the correctness of the District Court's final judgment rejecting the Lessors' contention that certain Louisiana oil and gas leases were forfeited by reason of nonpayment of royalties. The case turned on, and is controlled by, Louisiana legal principles. The principal question is whether the delay of some twenty months in payment of royalties by reason of the yet-unresolved controversy over the competing supremacy of an earlier voluntary...

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