DAWES v. HALE

No. 15048-CA.

421 So.2d 1208 (1982)

William Gray DAWES and Beman Gates Dawes, III, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. Frank HALE and Johnnie Upchurch Hale, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

October 25, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts by William Paul Lawrence, II and J. Jay Caraway, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellants.

Bodenheimer, Jones, Klotz & Simmons by David Klotz, Shreveport, for defendants-appellees.

Before PRICE, HALL and SEXTON, JJ.


HALL, Judge.

The plaintiffs brought suit to cancel a mineral lease affecting a 40-acre tract of land owned by plaintiffs for failure of the lessee to develop the leased property as a reasonably prudent operator as required by LSA-R.S. 31:122.1 Plaintiffs alleged that although the lessee had drilled and was producing three shallow wells in the extreme northwest corner of the property which drained not more than one and one-half acres, the...

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