Smith v. Sun Oil Co.

On January 21, 1920, plaintiffs leased to defendant, for oil and gas purposes, a certain 200 acres of land in Bossier parish, said lease to continue as long as oil ór gas should be produced in paying quantities.

In Smith et al. v. Sun Oil Co., 165 La. 907, 116 So. 379, we held that up to the filing of that suit the land was producing oil in paying quantities, and accordingly the lease had not expired at that time. This is a suit to declare that the lease has since expired because the land is not now producing oil or gas in paying quantities.

It is admitted that no oil whatever has been produced…