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B.A. KELLY LAND CO. v. QUESTAR EXPLORATION

No. 47,509-CA.

106 So.3d 181 (2012)

B.A. KELLY LAND CO., L.L.C. and Augton Co., L.L.C., Plaintiff-Appellants v. QUESTAR EXPLORATION AND PRODUCTION COMPANY, et al., Defendant-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

Rehearing Denied January 10, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Davidson, Jones & Summers, APLC, Shreveport, LA, by Randall Stephen Davidson , Grant Ernest Summers , Wm. Lake Hearne, Jr., for Appellants B.A. Kelly Land Co., L.L.C. and Augton Co., L.L.C.

Jones, Walker, Waechter, Poitevent, Carrére & Denégre, by Michael Beatty Donald , Nicole Duarte , Claudia Rivas-Molloy , for Appellees QEP Energy Co., et al.

Bradley, Murchison, Kelly & Shea, by Joseph L. Shea, Jr. , Katherine Smith Baker , Shreveport, LA, Natalie Dekaris , New Orleans, LA, for Appellees Atlanta Exploration Co., et al.

Sinclair Law Firm, LLC, Shreveport, LA, by Scott C. Sinclair , for Amici Curiae Robert Wesley Addison, et al.

Before DREW, MOORE and SEXTON (Pro Tempore), JJ.

MOORE, J.

The lessors, B.A. Kelly Land Co. and Augton Co., filed this suit in 2009 to declare a 1971 mineral lease automatically terminated due to the lessees' failure to produce or perform operations for 11 months in 1988 and 1989. The district court sustained the lessees' exceptions of prematurity and no cause of action based on the "judicial ascertainment" clause in the lease, and dismissed the suit without prejudice. The lessors now appeal. For the reasons expressed...

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