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OLIVIER v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY

Civ. A. No. 13496.

282 F.Supp. 655 (1968)

Nicholas D. OLIVIER, Plaintiff, v. HUMBLE OIL & REFINING COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court E. D. Louisiana, New Orleans Division.

March 11, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur C. Reuter, Reuter, Reuter & Schott, New Orleans, La., for plaintiff, Nicholas D. Olivier, Elmo Laudumiey, defendant, and Mrs. Lillian C. Stevens, Testamentary Executrix of the Succession of Noah S. Cutrer, defendant.

Bernard J. Caillouet, W. K. McAnelly, Jr., Andrew McCollam, Jr., L. K. Benson, Jr., H. H. Hillyer, Jr., New Orleans, La., for Humble Oil and Refining Co., defendant.

H. M. Holder, Shreveport, La., C. C. Richmond, Melvin Evans, Charles B. Jarrett, New Orleans, La., for Gulf Oil Corp.

Morris Wright, New Orleans, La., for William G. Helis, Jr. and The Estate of William G. Helis.

COMISKEY, District Judge.

Nicholas D. Olivier, plaintiff, holds an overriding royalty in a lease wherein Humble Oil & Refining Company is named the lessee and Dr. Noah S. Cutrer is the lessor. The lease is dated December 19, 1953 and covers certain property in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, part of which property consists of 57.36 acres of land which is the area disputed in this case.

Four years before Humble got its lease from Cutrer on October 31, 1949...

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