Broussard v. Phillips Petroleum Company

HUNTER, Judge.

This suit for cancellation of an oil, gas and mineral lease (as to part of the acreage covered thereby) was instituted in state court and removed to this court by defendant on the basis of diversity. The land involved has considerable value and comprises 29.526 acres by actual survey. The delay rentals which accrued October 19, 1956, as to the land in question, were not paid or tendered by defendants; nor were drilling operations conducted on or production obtained from that portion of the land prior to that date.

Plaintiff asks for judgment on the face of the papers and both…