KINDER GAS, INC. v. REYNOLDS

No. 11-1012.

84 So.3d 695 (2012)

KINDER GAS, INC., v. Gerald B. REYNOLDS and Mary J. Kauffmann.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Third Circuit.

Rehearing Denied March 21, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald D. Akers, Jr. , Gibbens & Stevens, New Iberia, LA, Gladstone N. Jones, III , Eberhard D. Garrison , Kevin E. Huddell , H.S. Bartlett III , Andrew Jacoby , Jones, Swanson, Huddell & Garrison, LLC, New Orleans, LA, W. Jay Luneau , Luneau Law Office, Alexandria, LA, for Defendants/Plaintiffs in Reconvention/Appellants, Gerald B. Reynolds, Robin Reynolds Lipari, Nancy Reynolds Landry, and Mary J. Kaufmann.

Craig Ray Hill , Jones & Hill, Oberlin, LA, Morgan J. Well, Jr. , Lee M. Peacocke , Larzelere Picou Wells Simpson Lonero, LLC, Metairie, LA, for Plaintiff/Defendant in Reconvention/Appellee, Kinder Gas, Inc.

Paul J. Tellarico , Neblett, Beard & Arsenault, Alexandria, LA, Joseph Ralph White , Stella C.C. Shackelford , Sharon L. Andrews , The White Law Firm, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant in Reconvention/Appellee, Hunt Dominion Corporation.

Matthew J. Randazzo, III , Christopher B. Bailey , Demarcus J. Gordon , Gordon, Arata, McCollam, Duplantis & Eagan, LLC, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant in Reconvention/Appellee, Rosewood Resources, Inc.

Stuart T. Welch , Joe B. Norman , Joseph I. Giarrusso III , Katherine Seegers Roth , Elisabeth Lorio Baer , Liskow & Lewis, APLC, New Orleans, LA, for Defendant in Reconvention/Appellee, XH, LLC.

Court composed of OSWALD A. DECUIR, BILLY HOWARD EZELL, and JAMES T. GENOVESE, Judges.


GENOVESE, Judge.

In this property contamination case, the landowners appeal the trial court's grant of the exceptions of prescription and prematurity filed on behalf of the oil, gas, and mineral lessees. For the following reasons, we affirm.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Oliver B. Reynolds and Hunt Petroleum Corporation (Hunt Petroleum) entered into a surface lease on August 27, 1960, involving...

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