United States Fifth Circuit

Where servitude agreements do not expressly impose on pipeline owners the duty to prevent canals from widening and eroding adjoining marshland, genuine issues of material fact remain as to prescription and duty, in both tort and contract, and summary judgment is improper.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/10/2002
• Published 05/10/2002

Judges

• WIENER, Circuit Judge:, Before DUHÉ, WIENER, and BARKSDALE, Circuit Judges.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Andrew J. Gray, III (argued), Wade Thomas Visconte, The Gray Law Firm, Lake Charles, LA, Michael X. St. Martin, Joseph G. Jevic, St. Martin & Williams, Houma, LA, for Plaintiff-Appellant., Thomas R. Blum (argued), Christina H. Belew, James A. Burton, Simon, Peragine, Smith & Redfearn, New Orleans, LA, for Columbia Gulf Transmission Co., Robert J. Young, III, Robert J. Young, Jr. (argued), Young, Richaud & Myers, New Orleans, LA, for Koch Gateway Pipeline Co.