CENTRAL PINES LAND CO.; Tower Minerals Company Inc.; Jack E. Lawton, Jr.; Evelyn Gay Lawton Duhon; Linda Lew Lawton Drost; D, S, & T, Inc.; Drost & Brame Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees,
v.
UNITED STATES of America, Defendant-Appellee-Cross-Appellant,
v.
Texaco Exploration & Production Inc.; Sonat Exploration Co.; Chesapeake Operating Inc.; C.H.C. Gerard; Union Pacific Resources Co., Defendants-Appellees.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.https://leagle.com/images/logo.png
November 28, 2001.
November 28, 2001.
Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Andrew J. Gray, III (argued), The Gray Law Firm, Lake Charles, LA, Kim Gregory Mayhall (argued), Thomas Chalmers McKowen, IV, Strain, Dennis, Mayhall & Bates, Baton Rouge, LA, Thad David Minaldi, Sulpher, LA, for Plaintiffs-Appellants-Cross-Appellees.
John Smeltzer (argued), John A. Bryson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Reasources Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.
David R. Dugas, Caffrey, Oubre, Dugas & Campbell, Lafayette, LA, for Texaco Exploration & Production Co.
David B. Means, III, Plummer & Means, Mansfield, LA, for Sonat Exploration Co.
Raymond B. Roush, Chesapeake Operating Inc., Oklahoma City, OK, Larry Charles Hebert, Ottinger, Hebert, Sikes & Hebert, Lafayette, LA, for Chesapeake Operating Inc.
David Baer Klotz, Bodenheimer, Jones, Klotz & Simmons, Shreveport, LA, for C H C Gerard.
Edwin Christian Laizer, Adams & Reese, New Orleans, LA, for Union Pac. Resources Co.
Before HIGGINBOTHAM, BARKSDALE and STEWART, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.
PATRICK E. HIGGINBOTHAM, Circuit Judge:
The law of mineral rights in Louisiana differs from that of common law states. In Louisiana, these rights do not exist as a separate, perpetual estate in land, but can only be held separate from the surface land in the form of a mineral servitude.1 The servitude gives its holder the right to enter the property and extract the minerals.2 Louisiana law has consistently...
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