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PETRO-HUNT, L.L.C. v. U.S.

Nos. 02-30760, 02-30786.

365 F.3d 385 (2004)

PETRO-HUNT, L.L.C.; Hunt Petroleum Corp.; Kingfisher Resources, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellees, v. UNITED STATES of America, et al., Defendants, United States of America, Defendant-Appellant. Petro-Hunt, L.L.C., Hunt Petroleum Corp.; Kingfisher Resources, Inc., Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. United States of America, Aspect Resources L.L.C.; Bayou Petroleum Co.; First Texas Hydrocarbons, Inc.; Oscar C. Forland; Gulf Coast Oil & Gas Co.; Justiss Oil Company, Inc.; M.B. Exploration, L.L.C.; Northstar Energy L.L.C.; Palmer Petroleum, Inc.; Howell R. Spear; John P. Strang; Wheless T.D.L. Exploration Company, L.L.C.; Ocean Energy Resources, Inc., formerly known as UMC Petroleum Corp.; Devon S.F.S. Operating, Inc., formerly known as Santa Fe Snyder Corp.; J. Bradley Jeffreys; Energy Arrow Exploration L.L.C.; Caruthers Producing Company, Inc., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 31, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Ralph White (argued), Montgomery, Barnett, Brown, Read, Hammond & Mintz, New Orleans, LA, for Petro-Hunt, L.L.C.

Matthew Joseph Randazzo, III, John Mason McCollam, Jonas Peyton Baker, Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, New Orleans, LA, for Hunt Petroleum Corp. and Kingfisher Resources, Inc.

John Smeltzer (argued), John A. Bryson, U.S. Dept. of Justice, Environment & Natural Resources Div., Washington, DC, for U.S.

David L. Smelley, Hargrove, Pesnell & Wyatt, Shreveport, LA, for Palmer Petroleum Inc.

James Fleet Howell, Shreveport, LA, for Wheless T.D.L. Exploration Co. LLC.

Before EMILIO M. GARZA and DENNIS, Circuit Judges, and VANCE, District Judge.

DENNIS, Circuit Judge:

Petro-Hunt, L.L.C., Hunt Petroleum Corporation, and Kingfisher Resources, Inc., (collectively "Plaintiffs") filed a declaratory judgment action seeking to quiet title to mineral rights in approximately 180,000 acres of federally owned land within the Kisatchie National Forest. Plaintiffs claim those rights as successors in interest to 96 mineral servitudes that were created before the United States...

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