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CHEVRON U.S.A. v. MARTIN EXPLORATION CO.

No. 82 CA 0596.

432 So.2d 886 (1983)

CHEVRON U.S.A., INC. v. MARTIN EXPLORATION COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied June 10, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Redfearn, John C. Herbert, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, for Martin Exploration and Ken G. Martin, third-party defendant, appellant.

John C. Christian, M. Taylor Darden, Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, New Orleans, for Chevron U.S.A., Inc., plaintiff, appellee.

Patrick S. Ottinger, Plauché, Hartley, Lapeyre & Ottinger, Lafayette, for Cotton Petroleum Corp., defendant, appellee.

Nathaniel P. Phillips, Jr., James A. Babst, Chaffe, McCall, Phillips, Toler & Sarpy, New Orleans, for BTA Oil Producers, defendant, appellee.

Frederick B. Alexius, Provosty, Sadler & deLaunay, Alexandria, for Thomas A. Durham, defendant.

William S. Strain, Strain & Mayhall, Baton Rouge, for Continental, McCunn, Horton, Brownlee, Ward & Smith, defendants.

T. Michael White, Harmon & White, Port Allen, for absentee defendants.

Before COVINGTON, LANIER and ALFORD, JJ.

LANIER, Judge.

This is a suit in contract seeking a declaratory judgment to cancel a mineral interest in four conservation units producing from the Tuscaloosa Sand. The trial court rendered judgment cancelling the mineral interest. This suspensive appeal followed.

FACTS

On November 7, 1975, F. Evans Farwell and others (Farwell) executed an oil, gas and mineral lease in favor of Chevron Oil Company (Chevron)1 and Tomlinson...

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