TRINIDAD PETRO. CORP. v. PIONEER NATURAL GAS CO.

No. 6787.

381 So.2d 834 (1979)

TRINIDAD PETROLEUM CORPORATION, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PIONEER NATURAL GAS COMPANY et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

February 5, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George W. Hardy, III, Houston, Tex., and J. P. Mauffray, Jr., Jena, for plaintiff-appellant.

Provosty & Sadler, David Spence, Alexandria, Plauché, Hartley, Lapeyre & Ottinger by Patrick S. Ottinger, Lafayette, McKeithen & Burns, Don Burns, Columbia, Wm. Henry Sanders, Jena, Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, James E. Toups, Jr., Baton Rouge, Gaharan & Wilson, Joseph Wilson, Jena, for defendants-appellees.

Before CULPEPPER, GUIDRY and SWIFT, JJ.


SWIFT, Judge.

This possessory action is on appeal from judgments which sustained exceptions of no cause and no right of action, and dismissed the suit at plaintiff's costs. We reverse the judgments of the district court and remand the case for a trial on the merits.

On November 6, 1969, defendant, Pioneer Natural Gas Company, the owner of the minerals in certain lands in Section 19, Township 11 North, Range 3 East, granted a mineral lease to Nelson Oil Corporation...

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