PLAQUEMINES PARISH GOVERN. v. GETTY OIL CO.

No. 94 CA 1634T.

662 So.2d 773 (1995)

The PLAQUEMINES PARISH GOVERNMENT v. GETTY OIL COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Opinion Granting Rehearing for Limited Purpose September 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest R. Eldred, Larry D. Dyess, Baton Rouge, for plaintiff-appellant.

Louise V. White, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee Exxon.

John D. Fitzmorris, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee Texaco Production, Inc.

H. Hampton Carver, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

William S. Johnson, Angola, in pro per.

J. Carter Wilkinson, Baton Rouge, for defendant-appellee Getty Oil Co.

J. Clayton Johnson, Baton Rouge, for intervenor-appellee Robert L. Lobrano, et al.

Brian Guillot, New Orleans, for defendant-appellee William S. Johnson Trust.

Chester A. Eggleston, Port Sulphur, for Curator-Ad-Hoc for absent defendants.

John A. Gordon, New Orleans, for defendants The Clayton Foundation for Research, et al.

William F. Pipes, Jr., Monroe, for defendants Mrs. Carol L. Parsons, et al.

James A. Barton, III, New Orleans, for defendants Erwin W. Smith, Jr., et al.

W. Eric Lundin, III, Belle Chasse, for Curator-Ad-Hoc for Absent Defendants Deanok, Inc. and Russell D. Morris.

Charles B. Mayer, New Orleans, for defendants Alice H. Lynch, et al.

India Morris Bradley, Lorton, VA, for defendant.

Before WATKINS and FOGG, JJ., and TANNER, J. Pro Tem.


WATKINS, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether leases held by the defendant oil companies are "alive" or whether, because of the expiration of the mineral servitudes held by their alleged grantors of the leases, parts of the leases have expired.

This lawsuit involves various claims to mineral rights in certain lands that were formerly a part of West Bay in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana. Plaintiff Plaquemines Parish Government (hereinafter "Parish") is...

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