SHELL OIL COMPANY v. WILLIAMS

No. 12655.

411 So.2d 634 (1982)

SHELL OIL COMPANY and Pennzoil Producing Company v. WILLIAMS, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

March 9, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

C. Murphy Moss, Jr. and Loretto M. Babst, Lemle, Kelleher, Kohlmeyer & Matthews, New Orleans, for plaintiffs-appellees.

Campbell C. Hutchinson and Anthony M. DiLeo, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, for defendants-appellants.

Before SCHOTT, AUGUSTINE and KLEES, JJ.


SCHOTT, Judge.

Plaintiffs, Shell Oil Company and Pennzoil Producing Company,1 as mineral lessees, brought this action for declaratory judgment against their lessors. Defendants are Williams, Inc., a corporation, and various individual members of the Williams family. They reconvened for a cancellation of the leases and an accounting by plaintiffs for an alleged deficiency in royalty payments. The issue is over the application of the royalty...

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