FONTENOT v. SUN OIL COMPANY

No. 50470.

243 So.2d 783 (1971)

257 La. 642

Wallace FONTENOT v. SUN OIL COMPANY (formerly Sunray Mid-Continent Oil Co.) et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied February 24, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Petitjean & Petitjean, Martin Petitjean, II, Rayne, Huey H. Breaux, Lafayette, for plaintiff-respondent.

Liskow & Lewis, Austin W. Lewis, New Orleans, Tom D. Hardeman, Lafayette, Pugh, Buatt, Landry & Pugh, Lawrence G. Pugh, Jr., Crowley, for defendants-applicants.


McCALEB, Chief Justice.

We granted certiorari to review the judgment of the Court of Appeal in these proceedings decreeing that three overriding royalty owners must account to the landowner for their share of production obtained by their mineral lessee by reason of their failure to appeal from a judgment of the district court in a previous suit ordering cancellation of the mineral leases affecting the property, notwithstanding that a reversal of this judgment was...

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