Collins v. Godchaux

COOKS, Judge.

Lin this litigation between an independent petroleum landman and landowners of a mineral field, the trial court granted the landowners’ motion for summary judgment alleging the landman engaged in the unauthorized practice of law in carrying out the duties set .forth in a series of mineral consulting agreements between the parties. The landowners’ reconven-tional demand seeking return of all monies paid in the past under the mineral consulting agreements to the landman was dismissed on the grounds that the landowners had “unclean hands” in crafting the mineral consulting…