Bean v. Bean

FORET, Judge.

Plaintiff, Nancy Zimmerman Bean, filed suit seeking an accounting of the mineral royalties payable under oil and gas leases and a declaratory judgment establishing her community property interests in those leases. Made defendants were her former husband, Theo B. Bean, and Baleo Energy Corporation, the operator of those leases. Defendant, Baleo, envoked a concursus proceeding requiring plaintiff and defendant, Theo B. Bean, to assert their respective claims to the mineral royalties. After trial on the merits, the trial court rendered judgment in favor of defendant, Theo B. Bean,…