MIAMI CORP. v. EXXON CO., USA

No. CA 86 0449.

509 So.2d 39 (1987)

MIAMI CORPORATION v. EXXON COMPANY, USA.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

May 27, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Campbell C. Hutchinson and Noel J. Darce, Stone, Pigman, Walther, Wittmann & Hutchinson, New Orleans, for plaintiff.

John M. Roper, Howard Marks, New Orleans, for Exxon Corp.

Before GROVER L. COVINGTON, C.J., and LANIER and ALFORD, JJ.


ALFORD, Judge.

The defendant lessee, Exxon Corporation (Exxon) appeals the trial court's action granting the plaintiff lessor's motion for summary judgment which ordered Exxon to release a portion of the leased acreage. In dispute is a forty-five acre tract.

According to the uncontested facts, the plaintiff lessor, Miami Corporation (Miami) granted Exxon a mineral lease on January 4, 1980, covering more than 2000 acres in the Bayou Carlin Field in St. Mary...

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