MELREN OIL & GAS v. PACIFIC-ATLANTIC OIL

No. 18863-CA.

511 So.2d 1277 (1987)

MELREN OIL & GAS EXPLORATION, INC., Plaintiff-Appellee, v. PACIFIC-ATLANTIC OIL COMPANY, INC., Four-H Oil Company, Inc., Frank J. Hall, Dorothy L. Hall, Eugenia Foster Sentell, Charles Kevin Sentell, William Brett Sentell, Foster Scott Sentell, John Gregory Sentell, Chris Richards, Haskell J. Bonner, Clara K. Bonner, Don Amir and Louis Erlich, Defendants-Appellants/Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Writ Denied November 13, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Madison, Garrett, Brandon, Hamaker, Wilson & Tugwell by John W. Wilson, Monroe, for plaintiff-appellee Melren Oil & Gas Exploration, Inc.

Theus, Grisham, Davis & Leigh by Paul D. Spillers, Monroe, for defendant-appellant Pacific-Atlantic Oil Co., Inc.

Wiener, Weiss, Madison & Howell by James Fleet Howell, Katherine Clark Henessey, Shreveport, for defendants/appellees Four-H Oil Co., Inc., Frank J. Hall, Dorothy L. Hall, Eugenia Foster Sentell, Charles Kevin Sentell, William Brett Sentell, Foster Scott Sentell, John Gregory Sentell, Chris Richards, Haskel J. Bonner and Clara K. Bonner.

John Taylor Bentley, Bastrop, for defendants-appellees Don Amir and Louis Erlich.

Before FRED W. JONES, Jr., NORRIS and LINDSAY, JJ.


FRED W. JONES, Jr., Judge.

Melren Oil & Gas Exploration, Inc. ("Melren") instituted a concursus proceeding to require various defendants to appear and assert their claims to funds that had accrued or would accrue as overriding royalties under assignments of a mineral lease on property in Morehouse Parish. The defendants, Pacific-Atlantic Oil Company ("Pacific") and the Bonner-Hall Group (the other defendants), each...

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