DORE ENERGY CORP. v. CARTER-LANGHAM, INC.

No. 2008-645.

997 So.2d 826 (2008)

DORE ENERGY CORPORATION v. CARTER-LANGHAM, INC., et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

November 5, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gladstone N. Jones, III, Eberhard D. Garrison, Kevin E. Huddell, Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, L.L.C., Harry T. Lemmon, Attorney at Law, New Orleans, LA, Jennifer Jones, Glenn W. Alexander, Jones & Alexander, Cameron, LA, Bernard E. Boudreaux, Jr., Breazeale, Sachse & Wilson, L.L.P., Baton Rouge, LA, for Plaintiff/Appellant, Dore Energy Corporation.

Donald R. Abaunza, Joe B. Norman, R. Keith Jarrett, Joseph I. Giarrusso, III, Liskow & Lewis, New Orleans, LA, Patrick W. Gray, Amy A. Lee, Johnson Gray McNamara, Lawrence P. Simon, Jr., George E. Arceneaux, Liskow & Lewis, Lafayette, LA, for Defendant/Appellee, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation, Mobil Oil Exploration & Producing Southeast, Inc., Socony Mobil Company, Inc., Magnolia Petroleum Company.

Court composed of ULYSSES GENE THIBODEAUX, Chief Judge, and OSWALD A. DECUIR and MARC T. AMY, Judges.


DECUIR, Judge.

The plaintiff, Dore Energy Corporation, appeals a judgment of the district court granting the defendants' motions for directed verdict and JNOV and dismissing its petition with prejudice. For the following reasons, we reverse.

FACTS

Dore Energy owns approximately 18,000 acres of land in Cameron Parish. In 1927, Dore's predecessor as owner, Cameron Meadows Land Company (CMLC), granted a mineral lease to H.M. Henshaw (the "Henshaw lease...

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