McCORMICK OIL & GAS, et al.
v.
STATE of Louisiana, et al.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
September 26, 1985.
September 26, 1985.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Howell Dennis, Andrew J.S. Jumonville, Lafayette, for plaintiffs-appellees.
William H. Mouton, Lafayette, for Chevron-defendant-appellant.
George J. Bailey, Bailey & Hollier, Lafayette, for defendants-appellants George Bailey, et al.
James B. Supple, Franklin, curator adhoc for absent defendants-appellants.
Robert C. Taylor, Dale, Owen, Richardson, Taylor & Mathews, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant Mrs. Augusta Smith.
John Nesser, Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer & Pierson and Miller, New Orleans; Jack C. Caldwell, Aycock, Horne, Caldwell & Coleman, Franklin, for defendants-appellants Dow Chemical, et al.
John A. Stewart, Jr., Hulse, Nelson & Wanek, New Orleans; Porteus R. Burke, New Iberia, for defendants-appellants Perry Burke, et al.
Jerry F. Davis, Ernest R. Eldred, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellant State of La., et al.
Simon Herold, Herold & Geneux, Shreveport, for defendants-appellants Sidney Herald, et al.
Susan Dorsey, Franklin (Court appointed to represent absent defendant, Jane (Jan) Pharr Gage) defendant-appellant.
David S. Forrester, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, for La. National Bank of Baton Rouge as Trustee for the Gladys Morris Smith, Testamentary Trust, defendant-appellant.
Tom W. Thornhill, Deutsch, Kerrigan & Stiles, Slidell, for Hibernia National Bank defendant-appellant.
Taylor Caffery, New Orleans for defendants-appellants.
Before EDWARDS, SHORTESS and SAVOIE, JJ.
Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.
EDWARDS, Judge.
McCormick Oil & Gas Corporation filed a concursus to determine the ownership of royalties on production from certain mineral leases it held in Grand Lake. The more than one hundred defendants constitute two groups, the State group and the landowner group. The trial court granted the State group's motion for summary judgment, and declared the State group the sole owners of the mineral royalties in dispute.
A timely devolutive appeal was...
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