BAILEY v. ROBERT V. NEUHOFF LTD. PARTNERSHIP

No. 95 CA 0616.

665 So.2d 16 (1995)

James J. BAILEY, III, Individually, and in His Capacity as Testamentary Executor of the Succession of Fairfax Foster Bailey, P. Foster Bailey, and Virginia Bailey Noland v. ROBERT V. NEUHOFF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, Thomas H. Neuhoff Limited Partnership, E. Hal Dickson Limited Partnership, JBN Limited Partnership, James E. Taubert, SBS Oil Company, Je-Too, Inc., and Franks Petroleum, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Writ Denied February 9, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Huntington B. Downer, Jr., Houma, for Patterson Services.

J. Patrick Hennessy, Shreveport, for Franks Petroleum.

Lamont P. Domingue and W. Gerald Gaudet, Lafayette, for Blue Marlin Specialty Tools.

St. Paul Bourgeois, IV, Lafayette, for Hydraulic Well Control.

Wade D. Rankin, New Orleans, for Lexington Ins.

Charles A. Mouton, Lafayette, for London Insurers.

Before SHORTESS, PARRO and KUHN, JJ.


SHORTESS, Judge.

In March 1988, an underground blowout occurred in an oil well in St. Mary Parish. During work-over operations attempting to salvage the well, work strings supplied by Patterson Services, Inc. (Patterson), or Blue Marlin Specialty Tools, Inc. (Blue Marlin), parted, and the well was ultimately lost.

The successors to the lessors of the mineral leases involved (the Baileys) filed suit against the successors to the lessee, the Neuhoffs, and the...

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