Malone v. Celt Oil, Inc.

SEXTON, Judge.

This appeal presents the narrow issue of whether a mineral lessee’s action in recom-pleting a well at a shallower formation constituted a single operation with the initial drilling so as to be good faith operations sufficient to interrupt the ten year liberative prescription of non-use established for mineral servitudes.

Plaintiffs in this cause are the surviving children and grandchildren of Frankie 0. Lester Malone and William Madison Malone. In the succession of Frankie 0. Lester Malone, plaintiffs were placed in possession of certain immovable property. Subsequently, by deeds…