STATE EX REL. TUREAU v. BEPCO, L.P.

No. 2020 CA 0595 2020 CA 0596.

330 So.3d 1107 (2021)

STATE of Louisiana, EX REL. Justin Dale TUREAU v. BEPCO, L.P., BOPCO, L.P., Chevron U.S.A. Inc., Chisolm Trail Ventures, L.P. and Hess Corporation, a Delaware Corporation.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Rehearing Denied November 4, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Phillips , Louis M. Grossman , Claire E. Juneau , Claudia Carrizales , New Orleans, Louisiana, Charles S. McCowan, III , L. Victor Gregoire , Richard D. McConnell, Jr. , John C. Funderbunk , Kristi D. Obafunwa , Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Attorneys for Plaintiff-Appellee, Chevron U.S.A., Inc.

Loulan J. Pitre, Jr. , Aimee Williams Hebert , Jane A. Jackson , New Orleans, Louisiana, Attorneys for Plaintiffs-Appellees, Chisolm Trail Ventures, L.P. & BEPCO, L.P.

Jonathan A. Hunter , Robert B. McNeal , Elizabeth S. Wheeler , Kelly Brechtel Becker , Erin E. Bambrick , New Orleans, Louisiana, Attorneys for Plaintiff-Appellee, Hess Corporation.

Michael P. Cash , Houston, Texas, Jamie D. Rhymes , Hunter A. Chauvin , Lafayette, Louisiana, Attorneys for Plaintiff-Appellee, BOPCO, L.L.C.

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 , Caroline H. Martin , Christopher D. Martin , Michael L. Heaton , Baton Rouge, Louisiana, Jerold Edward Knolls, Sr. , Marksville, Louisiana, Attorneys for Defendant-Appellant, Justin Dale Tureau.

BEFORE: McDONALD, THERIOT, HOLDRIDGE, WOLFE, AND HESTER, JJ.


Plaintiff-landowner, Justin Dale Tureau, appeals two judgments of the trial court that sustained peremptory exceptions raising the objection of res judicata filed by defendant, Hess Corporation, and adopted by defendant, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. For the following reasons, we reverse both the January 3, 2020 and January 13, 2020 trial court...

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