FONTENOT v. SUNRAY MID-CONTINENT OIL COMPANY

No. 1906.

197 So.2d 715 (1967)

Wallace FONTENOT, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. SUNRAY MID-CONTINENT OIL COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied April 12, 1967.

On Motion to Amend Decree April 12, 1967.

Writ Refused June 6, 1967.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Liskow & Lewis, by Austin W. Lewis, New Orleans, Charles C. Gremillion, New Orleans, Aaron & Aaron, by J. Donald Aaron, Crowley, for defendants-appellants.

Petitjean & Petitjean, by Martin Petitjean, II, Rayne, Huey Henry Breaux, Lafayette, for plaintiff-appellee.

EN BANC.


TATE, Judge.

The defendant mineral lessee(s) Sunray appeal from a judgment cancelling two mineral leases insofar as the leases affect the undivided 1/14th mineral interest of the plaintiff Wallace Fontenot in four tracts of land in Acadia Parish. Sunray obtained these leases from Fontenot's ancestors in title.

Sunray principally contends: (1) The cancellation of the mineral leases was erroneous, since Sunray had substantially performed its lessee obligations...

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