Crow Drilling & Producing Co. v. Hunt

SANDERS, Justice.

Crow Drilling & Producing Company, Inc., and James M. Forgotson brought this declaratory judgment action seeking a declaration that they are entitled to 22 %oths of the oil produced from two wells in Rapides and LaSalle Parishes, under their contracts with defendants H. L. Hunt and B. B. Barber as trustee of Reliance Trusts.

The district court held the plaintiffs, Crow and Forgotson, were entitled to 22 •%oths of the production from the wells After a new trial, however, the court decreed plaintiffs to be entitled to 16J4oths of the production from Well No. 1 and to none of the…