STATE v. PLACID OIL COMPANY

No. 8878.

274 So.2d 402 (1972)

STATE of Louisiana and Gulf Oil Company v. PLACID OIL COMPANY et al., Texaco, Inc., Intervenor.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 31, 1973.

Writs Granted April 5, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wm. Guste, Atty. Gen., John L. Madden, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, for appellant State of Louisiana.

Charles C. Gremillion, Liskow & Lewis, Melvin Evans, New Orleans, Charles B.

Jarrett, New Orleans, for appellant Gulf Oil Corporation.

W. Scott Wilkinson, Wilkinson, Woods, Carmody & Peatross, Shreveport, Armand A. Gutuierrez, Dallas, Tex., for appellee Placid Oil Co.

John C. Christian, Eugene D. Saunders, Milling, Saal, Saunders, Benson & Woodward, New Orleans, for appellee J. Ray McDermott & Co.

John Pat Little, Guste, Barnett & Little, New Orleans, for appellee Frederic Allen Roussel.

C. Ellis Henican, Henican, James & Cleveland, New Orleans, for appellees C. Ellis Henican, Philip E. James, Murray F. Cleveland, Gerald M. Charpentier, Jr., Stephen B. Charpentier, Esther Charpentier McCauley, Joseph Earl Charpentier, Jr., May Charpentier Stark, Louise Charpentier Seiler, Mildred Charpentier Hosley, Joan Charpentier Czmyrid, Evelyn Meynier Romaguerea, Joseph C. Meynier, Ruth Meynier Ballatin, Clementine Meynier Dixey, Albert Meynier, Bertha Meynier Moinet, Lois Meynier Henderson, Ramona Meynier Cames, Anna Meynier Dickinson.

Margot Mazeau, Normann & Normann, New Orleans, for appellees Frank S. Normann, Daisy Torian Nelson, John Nelson.

John E. Coleman, Jr., Jack C. Caldwell, Aycock, Horne, Caldwell & Coleman, Franklin, for appellees Mrs. Frances Lyons Todd, Testamentary Executrix of the Succession of Spencer G. Todd, Sr., deceased; Mrs. Florence R. Cotten, Mrs. Katherine R. Moss, Miss Emma E. Roussell, Mrs. Marguerite R. Hereford, Mrs. Kathryn R. Duputy, Mrs. Margaret R. Matthews, Philip A. Roussel, Mrs. Florence R. Raymond, George A. Roussel.

Jacob S. Landry, Jack J. Cousin, Landry, Watkins, Cousin & Bonin, New Iberia, for appellees National Trust for Historic Preservation in the United States, Margaret Ann Shinn, W. K. Smith.

William D. Hunter, Lippman, Hunter & Rawls, Morgan City, for appellee Mrs. Joan Rochel Landry, Wife of Alphonse D. Landry, Jr.

James H. Roussel, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, for appellees Elise Roussel, Sedley H. Roussel Alpaugh, Marie H. Roussel, William D. Roussel, Jr., James H. Roussel, Susie Rochel Eggleston, Edvige Rochel, Angela Devlin, Shirley Devlin Bridges, Daniel J. Devlin, III, Michael Coles Devlin, Angela Jane Devlin, William J. Devlin, Jr., Elizabeth Devlin Chipley, Philip A. Devlin, Thomas J. Devlin, John J. Devlin, Jr., Amelie Cornay, Mrs. John Church, Florian A. Cornay, J. N. Wenger, Mrs. William C. Dawson.

Bernard E. Boudreaux, Jr., Bauer, Darnall, McNulty & Boudreaux, Franklin, for appellees Joan Charpentier Czymyrid, Mrs. Marguerite Prescott Youngman, Anna Rochel Youngblood, Ernest L. Sansum, Rochelle Prescott, Anne Roussel Cunningham, Mrs. Eleanor P. Smith, Mrs. C. C. McCutchon.

Frances Bernadette Rochel Delaune, in pro. per.

Charles F. Bailey, Bailey & Mouton, Lafayette, Wiley G. Lastrapes, New Orleans, William J. Conrad, New Orleans, for appellee Texaco, Inc., intervener.

Mrs. Betty Dodson Blanchard, Philip Harold Prescott, Mrs. Katherine Frances Dupuy, Shirley Devlin Bridges, James H. Roussel, Sedley H. Roussel Alpaugh, Marie H. Roussel, William D. Roussel, Jr. (Heirs of Louis B. Roussel), c/o James H. Roussel, Phelps, Dunbar, Marks, Claverie & Sims, New Orleans, in pro. per., interveners.

Before LANDRY, SARTAIN, ELLIS, BLANCHE and TUCKER, JJ.


Rehearing En Banc Denied January 31, 1973.

BLANCHE, Judge.

The State and its mineral lessee, Gulf Oil Corporation (State-Gulf), appeal from judgment rejecting the State's petitory action to be declared owner of three parcels of land lying below the ordinary high water mark of Six Mile Lake adjacent to Sections 49, 50 and 68, Township 15 South, Range 11 East, St. Mary Parish, and also for an accounting of the proceeds...

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