CROOKS v. PLACID OIL CO.

No. 2007-980.

981 So.2d 125 (2008)

Steve H. CROOKS, et ux. v. PLACID OIL COMPANY, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

April 9, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald R. Wilson, Gaharan & Wilson, Jena, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Windham Oil Corporation.

R. Joseph Wilson, Gaharan & Wilson, Jena, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Hunt Petroleum Corporation.

Robert G. Nida, Gold, Weems, Bruser, Sues & Rundell, Jimmy R. Faircloth, Jr., Alexandria, LA, for Plaintiffs/Appellants, Steve H. Crooks, Era Lea Henderson Crooks.

Robert S. Rooth, Chaffe McCall, L.L.P., New Orleans, LA, for Defendants/Appellees, Kingfisher Resources, Inc., Louisiana-Hunt Petroleum Corp., Hunt Petroleum Corporation.

J. Ralph White, The White Law Firm, Oxford, MS, for Defendants/Appellees, Placid Oil Company, Petro-Hunt, LLC.

Pamela R. Mascari, Kean Miller Hawthorne D'Armond McCowan & Jarman, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, Oil & Land Enterprises.

Court composed of JOHN D. SAUNDERS, MARC T. AMY, and BILLY HOWARD EZELL, Judges.


AMY, Judge.

The plaintiffs acquired property containing a salt water disposal well. They alleged that the defendant oil companies injected salt water into the well from source wells not anticipated by the agreement establishing the operation of the well. The plaintiffs also named as defendants the oil companies operating the source wells. The trial court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendants, finding that the plaintiffs could not establish breach of...

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