CONTINENTAL GROUP, INC. v. ALLISON

No. 67188.

404 So.2d 428 (1981)

The CONTINENTAL GROUP, INC. v. J. L. ALLISON, Jr., et al.

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

On Rehearing June 22, 1981.

Concurring Opinion On Rehearing October 8, 1981.

Rehearing Denied October 9, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts, Robert Roberts, III, Joseph W. Milner, Randall S. Davidson, Shreveport, Wright, James, Hogg & Bleich, Howard W. Wright, Jr., Ruston, Colvin, Hunter, Brown, Plummer & Means, D. Scott Brown, Mansfield, for plaintiff-applicant.

Wiener, Weiss, Madison & Howell, John M. Madison, Jr., James F. Howell, James R. Madison, Wilkinson, Carmody & Peatross, W. Scott Wilkinson, Shreveport, for defendants-respondents.

Daniel T. Murchison, Watson, Murchison, Crews, Arthur & Corkern, Natchitoches, Frank W. Voelker, Jr., Voelker, Ragland, Brackin & Crigler, Lake Providence, Wedon T. Smith, Smith, Taliaferro, Seibert, Boothe & Purvis, Jonesville, Gene W. Lafitte, Joe B. Norman, Charles C. Gremillion, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, William D. Brown, Brown, Wicker, Lee & Barnes, Monroe, Louis D. Curet, D'Amico & Curet, Baton Rouge, Thomas A. Self, Self & Burkett, Many, T. Lynn Geneux, Herold & Geneux, Shreveport, George H. Meadors, W. F. M. Meadors, Meadors & Meadors, Homer, R. H. Madden, III, L. D. Napper, III, Napper & Madden, William S. Carter, Jr., Robert G. Dawkins, Dawkins, Coyle & Carter, Ruston, Raoul P. Sere, Lancaster & Sere, Metaire, Malcolm S. Murchison, Ray A. Barlow, Hargrove, Guyton, Ramey & Barlow, Shreveport, James G. Bethard, Henry Bethard, III, Bethard & Davis, Coushatta, Richard E. Gerard, Lake Charles, Richard B. Sadler, Jr., Ledoux R. Provosty, Jr., Provosty, Sadler & Delaunay, Alexandria, Edgar H. Lancaster, Jr., Lancaster, Baxter & Seale, Tallulah, Howard Coghlan, Kenley, Boyland, Coghlan & Erskine, Longview, Tex., Edward G. Randolph, Jr., Alexandria, for amicus curiae.


CALOGERO, Justice.

In the year 1956 after two years of negotiations, Mansfield Hardwood Lumber Company sold for approximately $90.00 per acre, 92,000 acres of timberland in seven parishes in North Louisiana to Robert Gair Co., Inc. predecessors of the Continental Group, Inc. In that sale there was specifically reserved to vendor "all mineral rights" and there was further included a damage clause providing for restitution to the vendee for impairment of his interests...

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