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WALTON v. EXXON MOBIL CORP.

No. 49,569-CA.

162 So.3d 490 (2015)

Robert L. WALTON, Bonnie Trouille, Walton, John Keith Lamm and Rebecca Broussard Lamm, Plaintiffs-Appellants. v. EXXON MOBIL CORPORATION, Exxonmobil Oil Corporation, BP America Production Company and Monclova Plantation, L.L.C., Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, Second Circuit.

February 26, 2015.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Talbot, Carmouche & Marcello, by: Donald T. Carmouche , Victor L. Marcello , John H. Carmouche , William R. Coenen, III , Brian T. Carmouche , Todd J. Wimberley , Ross J. Donnes , D. Adele Owen , Leah Cotten , Caroline H. Martin , ROBERT C. VINES , JAMES E. PAXTON , for Plaintiffs-Appellants, Robert L. Walton, Bonnie Trouille Walton, John Keith Lamm and Rebecca Broussard Lamm.

Liskow & Lewis (New Orleans), by: Robert B. McNeal , Mark L. McNamara , James E. Lapeze , Stephen W. Wiegand , Joseph I. Giarrusso III , Joe B. Norman , Liskow & LEWIS (Houston), by: Michael P. Cash , Liskow & Lewis (Lafayette), by: April L. Rolen-Ogden , for Defendants-Appellees, ExxonMobil Oil Corporation and Exxon Mobil Corporation.

Shotwell Brown & Sperry, Monroe, by: George M. Wear, Jr. , for Ann Butts Burns, Cleada, N. Butts, Edgar Reed Butts, Edgar Reed Butts, and the Estate of Sara L. Muskelley.

James W. Berry , for Monclova Plantation, LLC.

Kean Miller LLP, by: James P. Doré , Pamela R. Mascari , R. Benn Vincent, Jr. , Counsel for BP America Production Company.

Jeansonne & Remondet, LLC, by: John A. Jeansonne, Jr. , John A. Jeansonne, III , for McGowan Working Partners, Inc. and John W. McGowan.

Before CARAWAY, LOLLEY and GARRETT, JJ.

The trial court dismissed a portion of the damage claims brought by plaintiff landowners in this so-called legacy litigation by application of the subsequent purchaser doctrine. The plaintiffs did not own the land until 2002. Their land remains subject to existing mineral leases and a mineral servitude. The partial judgment ruling of...

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