WOOD v. AXIS ENERGY CORP.

No. CA 04-1464.

899 So.2d 138 (2005)

Homer D. WOOD, et al. v. AXIS ENERGY CORPORATION, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 6, 2005.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward C. Abell, Jr., Onebane, Bernard, Torian, Lafayette, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, Halliburton Company, Mokeen Ltd. Partnership.

Raymond Anthony Beyt, Beyt & Beyt, Lafayette, LA, for Secondary Defendants/Appellants, Virginia Skinner Jones, J. Malcolm Jones, W.E. Wild, Jr., Dorothy Jean Hill Keenom, Shirley K. Bernstein, Mary Kathryn Meadors, George E. Meadors, Kathryn Wild, Axis Energy Corporation, Kenneth M. Waltrip, James Robert Hill, Virginia Glenn Hill Lattimore, Houston and Emma Hill, Trust Estate, John Newton.

Carla F. Chrisco, Lake Charles, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, Elisabeth Johnson, C. Leslie Rice, Jr., James Kemp, Estate of, Ralph R. Gilster, Jr., Georgia Mauch.

James Lawrence Bullen, Strain, Dennis, Mayhall & Bates, LLP, Lafayette, LA, for Plaintiffs/Appellees, Thomas C. McKowen, IV, Dorothy Lorene Wood, Charles I. Wood, Faithy W. Howard, Ruth R. Bravenac, John D. Williams, Barbara F. McGary, Nedra Pat Wood, Homer D. Wood, Roselle V. Manning, Diana Hundsoerfer Hauser.

David Paul Bruchhaus, Mudd & Bruchhaus, Cameron, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, Elizabeth Barlow, Neal Pratt Scott, Mitchell Investments, Martha Watts, Thomas Howes, Gail Moulton, Emmett Pratt, III, Henry Kravis, Trustee.

Kyle Patrick Polozola, George Hardy Robinson, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, JE & LE Mabee Foundation.

Marion Gute Webb, Newport Beach, CA, in Proper Person.

Tom Wahl, Oklahoma State Bank, Tulsa, OK, for Defendant/Appellee, Raymond F. Kravis, Trust.

Court composed of OSWALD A. DECUIR, MICHAEL G. SULLIVAN, and BILLY HOWARD EZELL, Judges.


EZELL, Judge.

Axis Energy Corporation and other interest owners in a mineral lease appeal a trial court judgment cancelling the mineral lease for failure to produce in paying quantities. Other issues raised by the Defendants concern bad faith, production proceeds, attorney fees, expert fees, and estoppel.

FACTS

The facts are not in dispute. On May 17, 1951, William R. Ehni and Hugh W. Darling executed an oil, gas, and mineral lease (hereinafter the...

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