McDOWELL v. PG & E RESOURCES CO.

No. 26,321-CA.

658 So.2d 779 (1995)

Dorothy N. McDOWELL, et al., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. PG & E RESOURCES COMPANY, et al., Defendants-Appellants.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

June 23, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hargrove, Pesnell & Wyatt by Joseph L. Hargrove, Jr., Shreveport, for appellants.

Bodenheimer, Jones, Klotz & Simmons by David Klotz, Shreveport, for appellees.

Before MARVIN, LINDSAY, HIGHTOWER, BROWN and STEWART, JJ.


HIGHTOWER, Judge.

This is an appeal from a judgment cancelling two oil and gas leases after the district court concluded that the lessees breached the implied covenant to diligently market production. We reverse.

Facts

By two separate contracts in 1978 and 1980, W. Howard McDowell, mineral rights owner, granted another party oil and gas leases involving approximately 133 acres in Jackson Parish.1 Plaintiffs ("the McDowells...

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