TERREBONNE SCHOOL BD. v. SOUTHDOWN, INC.

No. 2003 CA 0402.

887 So.2d 8 (2004)

TERREBONNE PARISH SCHOOL BOARD v. SOUTHDOWN, INC., Shell Oil Company, Davis Oil Company, Union Oil Company of California, Burlington Resources Oil & Gas Company & Mobil Exploration & Producing North America, Inc.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

July 14, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph G. Jevic, III, Houma, for Plaintiff-Appellant Terrebonne Parish School Board.

James R. Swanson, Samuel A. Giberga, Joseph C. Peiffer, New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellee Cemex, Inc. as successor in interest to Southdown, Inc.

David N. Schell, Jr., New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellee Louisiana Land & Exploration Company.

Robert B. McNeal, New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellee Mobil Exploration & Producing North America, Inc.

Elizabeth S. Wheeler, New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellee Shell Oil Company.

Etienne C. Lapeyre, New Orleans, for Defendant-Appellee Davis Oil Company.

Before: PETTIGREW, DOWNING, and McCLENDON, JJ.


PETTIGREW, J.

Plaintiff school board filed suit and alleged that defendant oil companies engaged in a continuous course of conduct through oil and gas operations, drilling, and/or pipeline activities that has damaged and continues to damage its property. Peremptory exceptions raising objections of prescription were later filed on behalf of several defendants that resulted in the dismissal of said parties. Similar exceptions were thereafter filed on behalf of the remaining...

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