MALONE v. CELT OIL, INC.

No. 17571-CA.

485 So.2d 145 (1986)

Jewell E. MALONE, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. CELT OIL, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 27, 1986.

Writ Denied May 16, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joel M. Sermons, Shreveport, for plaintiffs-appellants, Jewell E. Malone, et al.

Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts by Robert Roberts, III, J. Jay Caraway, Shreveport, for defendant-appellee, Mary G. Hudson.

Before MARVIN, SEXTON and NORRIS, JJ.


SEXTON, Judge.

This appeal presents the narrow issue of whether a mineral lessee's action in recompleting a well at a shallower formation constituted a single operation with the initial drilling so as to be good faith operations sufficient to interrupt the ten year liberative prescription of non-use established for mineral servitudes.

Plaintiffs in this cause are the surviving children and grandchildren of Frankie O. Lester Malone and William Madison...

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