United States Fifth Circuit

In an action for termination of an oil well lease based on the lease owners' alleged failure to negotiate regarding the shape of the producing units as required by a settlement agreement, summary judgment for Plaintiff is reversed, where the District Court did not address whether the parties had failed to negotiate within a reasonable time.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/28/2009
• Published 05/28/2009

Judges

• LESLIE H. SOUTHWICK, Circuit Judge:, Before SOUTHWICK and HAYNES, Circuit Judges, and ENGELHARDT, District Judge.

Court

• United States Fifth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Patrick Donovan Gallaugher (argued), Richard E. Gerard, Jr., Scofield, Gerard, Singletary & Pohorelsky, Lake Charles, LA, Harry Alston Johnson, III, Phelps Dunbar, Baton Rouge, LA, for Doré Energy Corp.


• For Appellees:
  
• Michael Vance Powell (argued), William Scott Hastings, Erik A. Marshall, Locke, Lord, Bissell & Liddell, LLP, Dallas, TX, for Defendants-Appellants.