ARKLA EXPLORATION CO. v. DELACROIX CORP.

Nos. 94-CA-0664, 94-CA-0665.

650 So.2d 777 (1995)

ARKLA EXPLORATION COMPANY v. DELACROIX CORPORATION, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Fourth Circuit.

Rehearings Denied March 14, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh M. Wilkinson, Jr., Wilkinson & Wilkinson, New Orleans, for appellee Delacroix Corp.

M. Hampton Carver, Carver, Darden, Koretzky, Tessier, Finn, Blossman & Areaux New Orleans, for appellants William Skully, Robin F. Skully, Charlotte Hillyer Dupuy, and Hayward H. Hillyer, Jr.

Michael A. Britt, New Orleans, for defendants/appellants Herbert E. Diaz, Allen D. Diaz, Delores Diaz Davidson and Lorraine Diaz Haffner.

Richard P. Ieyoub, Atty. Gen., Gary L. Keyser, Asst. Atty. Gen., David C. Kimmel, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baton Rouge, for appellant State of La.

Jackson M. Cooley, Houston, TX, for AMOCO, Production Co.

John F. Wadsack, The Carmouche Law Firm, Lake Charles, for appearers.

William Timothy Allen, III, J. Jay Caraway, Blanchard, Walker, O'Quin & Roberts, Shreveport, for appellant Seagull Mid-South Inc.—formerly Arkla Exploration Co.

Glenn L. Langley, Julia E. Blewer, Cook, Yancey, King & Galloway, Shreveport, George Pivach, II, Jefferson D. Honeywell, Pivach & Pivach, Belle Chasse, for appearers.

Before WARD, JONES and WALTZER, JJ.


JONES, Judge.

Several parties appeal the trial court's judgment in these consolidated concursus proceedings brought by Arkla Exploration Company relative to royalties from oil, gas and/or mineral leases located at the Lake Petit waterbottom.

We adopt the trial court's findings of fact in part as reproduced herein:

The evidence reveals that in 1895 the State transferred full government sections of 640 acres each to the Lake Borgne Levee District. In...

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