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PLAQUEMINES PARISH GOVERNMENT v. GETTY OIL CO.

No. 95-C-2452.

673 So.2d 1002 (1996)

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

Supreme Court of Louisiana.

Rehearing Denied June 28, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest R. Eldred, Larry DeWayne Dyess, for Applicant.

J. Carter Wilkinson, G. William Jarman, Susan Knight Carter, Kean, Miller, Hawthorne, D'Armond, McCowan & Jarman; Louise V. White, Lourdes Estevez Martinez, William Victor Courtney, Exxon Company, U.S.A., M. Hampton Carver, Marshall Taylor Darden, Stacy Smith Brown, Carver, Darden, Koretzky; J. Clayton Johnson, Jr., Taylor, Porter, Brooks & Phillips; Frederick W. Veters, John Donellan Fitzmorris, Jr., Victor F. Aguiluz, for Respondents.

MARCUS, Justice.*

The issue in this case is whether the leases held by the defendant oil companies are dependent on the continued viability of certain mineral servitude interests.

In order to resolve this issue, it is necessary to review the history of the property in question. In 1812 "West Bay was a navigable body of water owned by the State of Louisiana by its inherent sovereignty...

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