Mathews v. Emerson

BROWN, Chief Judge.

|! Plaintiff, Amanda Fontenot Mathews, brought this action to reform a cash sale deed to include a mineral reservation. Finding mutual error, the trial court reformed the cash sale deed to include a mineral reservation in favor of plaintiff. Defendant, Jennifer Lynn Emerson O’Brien Duke, has appealed. We affirm.

Facts

Amanda purchased a two-acre lot next to one owned by her mother in the Woolworth subdivision in DeSoto Parish, Louisiana.1 On February 20, 2004, plaintiff *348executed a mineral lease, with a no surface operations clause, with JPD Energy, Inc. A pooled unit was…