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BURNS v. LOUISIANA LAND & EXPLORATION CO.

No. 88-2566.

870 F.2d 1016 (1989)

Kittie West BURNS and Emma Searcy Burns Lennox, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. The LOUISIANA LAND & EXPLORATION CO. and McMoran Production Co., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

April 25, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Calhoun Bobbitt, Thomas Drought, Brite, Drought, Bobbitt & Halter, San Antonio, Tex., for plaintiffs-appellants.

Frank L. Heard, Jr., James D. Thompson, III, Vinson & Elkins, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before POLITZ and JOLLY, Circuit Judges, and HUNTER, District Judge.

E. GRADY JOLLY, Circuit Judge:

This case presents a question of construction of a mineral lease. We hold that, under this lease, the defendants' reworking operations performed on a dry hole did result in an extension of the lease.

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Kittie West Burns and Emma Searcy Burns Lennox own undivided interests in a piece of real estate in Texas that they inherited from their mother. On May 31, 1976, this property was leased to Jake Hamon for a five-year...

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