TEXAS GAS EXPLORATION v. LAFOURCHE REALTY

Nos. 2011 CA 0520, 2011 CA 0521, 2011 CA 0522, 2011 CA 0523.

79 So.3d 1054 (2011)

TEXAS GAS EXPLORATION CORPORATION v. LAFOURCHE REALTY COMPANY, INC., et al. CSX Oil and Gas Corporation v. Lafourche Realty Company, Inc., et al. Total Minatome Corporation, v. Lafourche Realty Company, Inc., et al. Lafourche Realty Company, Inc. v. Total Minatome Corporation, et al.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jefferson D. Stewart , Charles A. Cerise, Jr. , Raymond P. Ward , Shelly S. Howat , New Orleans, LA, David M. Richard , Thibodaux, LA, for Appellant/Plaintiff-in-Reconvention, Lafourche Realty Co., Inc.

John M. Wilson , Cheryl M. Kornick , Kelly B. Becker , Matthew D. Simone , New Orleans, LA, for Appellee/Defendant-in-Reconvention, Energen Resources Corp., successor-in-interest by merger and name change to Total Minatome Corp., successor-in-interest to CSX Oil and Gas Corp., successor-in-interest to Texas Gas Exploration Corp.

William R. Pitts , Metairie, LA, for Appellees/Defendants-in-Reconvention, Ellen Lucy McHugh, as Trustee of the Ellen Lucy McHugh Trust, et al.

Gary A. Lee , John M. Futrell , Richard M. Perles , David L. Hoskins , New Orleans, LA, for Appellees/Defendants-in-Reconvention, the Harrison Lessors.

P. Albert Bienvenu, Jr. , New Orleans, LA, for Appellees/Defendants-in-Reconvention, Carolyn Atkinson Bienvenu as Executrix of the Succession of Paul Albert Bienvenu, and the Succession heirs Carolyn Bienvenu, P. Albert Bienvenu, Jr., Carolyn Bienvenu Richardson McClave, and Richard A. Bienvenu.

Before CARTER, C.J., PARRO, and HIGGINBOTHAM, JJ.


HIGGINBOTHAM, J.

The merits of this appeal in these consolidated cases relate to the interpretation of an oil royalty payment clause in an oil and gas lease. After rendering a partial summary judgment interpreting the clause, the district court signed an order of appeal and simultaneously issued a per curiam explaining why the district court declined to certify the judgment as final for purposes of an immediate appeal. After the record was lodged in this court...

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