BROOKS WELL SERV. v. CUDD PRESSURE CONTROL

No. 36,723-CA.

850 So.2d 1027 (2003)

BROOKS WELL SERVICING, INC. and National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, PA, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. CUDD PRESSURE CONTROL, INC. and Sonat Exploration Company, Defendant-Appellant.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied August 14, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael H. Bagot, Jr., Thomas A. Rayer, Jr., New Orleans, for Appellant, Cudd Pressure Control, Inc.

Philip K. Jones, Jr., New Orleans, Russell K. Jarrett, Thomas P. Diaz, New Orleans, for Appellant, Sonat Exploration Company.

Robert B. Nolan, Thomas G. O'Brien, New Orleans, Patrick E. Henry, Shreveport, Megan Haggerty, Thomas Eliot Gottsegen, New Orleans, for Appellee, Brooks Well Servicing, Inc.

Francis J. Barry, Jr., Robert E. Kerrigan, Jr., Walter P. Maestri, New Orleans, for Appellee, National Union Fire Insurance Co.

Arthur W. Landry, New Orleans, for Intervenor, Lumbermens Mutual Casualty Co.

Before BROWN, WILLIAMS and GASKINS, JJ.


WILLIAMS, J.

The defendant, Cudd Pressure Control, Inc. ("Cudd"), appeals a district court judgment in favor of Sonat Exploration Company ("Sonat") sustaining Sonat's exceptions of lis pendens and res judicata, finding that Cudd's request for declaratory judgment was precluded by a prior Texas judgment. Additionally, the co-defendant, Sonat, appealed a judgment granting the motion for summary judgment of the plaintiffs, Brooks Well Servicing, Inc. (...

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