FRANKLIN v. REGIONS BANK

No. 21-30324.

37 F.4th 986 (2022)

Elizabeth Fry FRANKLIN; Cynthia Fry Peironnet, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. REGIONS BANK, Defendant-Appellee, Eleanor Baugnies de Paul de St. Marceaux, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Regions Bank, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

Filed: June 14, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judy Y. Barrasso , Chloe Marie Chetta , Barrasso, Usdin, Kupperman, Freeman & Sarver, L.L.C., New Orleans, LA, Derek Tod Gilliland , Sorey & Gilliland, L.L.P., Longview, TX, Christopher Robert Johnson , Bruster, P.L.L.C., Southlake, TX, Karl Anthony Rupp , Sorey & Hoover, L.L.P., Waco, TX, for Plaintiffs-Appellants.

Juston Michael O'Brien , McGlinchey Stafford, P.L.L.C., General Litigation, Baton Rouge, LA, Catherine Kieffer Petree, Esq. , Hinshaw & Culbertson, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before Wiener, Graves, and Duncan, Circuit Judges.


Two sisters and a family friend own a large farm in north Louisiana. The farm sits atop the storied Haynesville Shale, one of the largest natural gas fields in the lower forty-eight states. In 2007, a bank's landman who was managing the sisters' interests extended a mineral lease for only a tenth of the farm. Or...

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