ANDRUS v. KAHAO

No. 81-C-1678.

414 So.2d 1199 (1981)

Mrs. Myrtle Devall ANDRUS, et al. v. Kenneth H. KAHAO, J. King Woolf, Jr. and Ashland Plantation, Inc.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing May 17, 1982.

Rehearing Denied July 2, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John L. Olivier, and John Tarlton Olivier, of Olivier & Brinkhaus, Sunset, for plaintiff-applicant.

R. Gordon Kean, Jr., and Gary A. Bezet, of Sanders, Downing, Kean & Cazedessus, Baton Rouge, for defendants-respondents.

John M. McCollan, of Gordon, Arata, McCollman & Stuart, New Orleans, George W. Hardy, III, of Broadhurst, Brook, Mangum, Hardy & Reed, Lafayette, John C. Christian & Claude E. Hall, of Milling, Benson, Woodard, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, New Orleans, Amicus Curiae, for defendants-respondents.


LEMMON, Justice.

This is a suit to recover one-half of the bonus money and delay rentals paid to defendants under a mineral lease. The issue is whether plaintiffs' grant to defendants of the exclusive right to enter into mineral leases included the right to retain bonuses and rentals payable under leases subsequently executed by defendants pursuant to that grant.

I.

In 1969 plaintiffs sold certain immovable property to defendants Kahao and King....

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