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CUMMINGS v. CONTINENTAL CAN CO., INC.

No. 14272.

389 So.2d 428 (1980)

J. L. CUMMINGS et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CONTINENTAL CAN COMPANY, INC. and Louisiana Power & Light Company, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

September 22, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Fowler, Jonesboro, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts by Joseph W. Milner, Robert Roberts, III, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee-Continental Can Co.

Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh by Robert Lee Curry, III, Monroe, for defendant-appellee-Louisiana Power & Light Co.

Shaw & Shaw by W. M. Shaw, Jenifer Ward Clason, Homer, amicus curiae in support of plaintiffs-appellants.

Before PRICE, HALL and MARVIN, JJ.

PRICE, Judge.

Plaintiffs are appealing from a judgment sustaining an exception of no cause of action and dismissing their suit against Continental Can Company for damages and cancellation of a lease agreement. We affirm for the reasons assigned.

Plaintiffs or their ancestors in title granted a 99-year lease of timber lands to Southern Advance Bag and Paper Company on 686 acres in 1949. Southern's interest in the leased property was subsequently transferred...

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