LAPEZE v. AMOCO PRODUCTION CO.

No. 87-3206.

842 F.2d 132 (1988)

Alice Shilling LAPEZE, Plaintiff-Appellant, and Hiram Shilling, Intervenor-Appellant, v. AMOCO PRODUCTION CO., Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 15, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davis B. Allgood, Gary, Field, Landry & Dornier, Baton Rouge, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Leonard L. Kilgore, III, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, Darmond, McCowan & Jarman, Baton Rouge, La., for defendant-appellee.

Before CLARK, Chief Judge, REAVLEY, Circuit Judge, and HUNTER, District Judge.


EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge.

Alice Shilling Lapeze and Hiram Shilling appeal the district court's dismissal of their suit to cancel a mineral lease held by Amoco Production Company, 655 F.Supp. 1 (1987). We affirm.

The basis of the plaintiffs' claim is essentially set forth in Paragraph 20 of the petition, as follows:

"Because shut-in royalties and/or delay rentals were not paid to the petitioners in...

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