LOUISIANA LAND & EXPLORATION CO. v. AMOCO PRODUCTION

No. 88-3496.

878 F.2d 852 (1989)

LOUISIANA LAND & EXPLORATION CO., Plaintiff-Appellant, v. AMOCO PRODUCTION CO., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied September 15, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Hampton Carver, John Anthony Dunlap, Milling, Benson, Woodward, Hillyer, Pierson & Miller, New Orleans, La., Jack C. Caldwell, Lafayette, La., for plaintiff-appellant.

Frank J. Peragine, Charles Coffee, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Reafearn, Clyde Mote, Amoco Production Co., New Orleans, La., for Amoco.

Kevin R. Rees, Edward C. Abell, Jr., Lafayette, La., for Tennessee Gas.

Before ALDISERT, REAVLEY, and HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judges.


REAVLEY, Circuit Judge:

This case has a long and tortuous history and is now before this court for the third time in ten years. The plaintiff-appellant, Louisiana Land & Exploration Company (LL & E) has owned lands in the Bastian Bay natural gas field in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, since the 1920s. In 1955 and 1959, LL & E executed mineral leases in the Bastian Bay field to Pan American Petroleum Corp., the predecessor to the defendant-appellee Amoco...

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