California Company v. Price

My inability to agree with the conclusion reached by the majority causes me much regret. Great as is my respect for my colleagues who subscribe to that view, I cannot, in good conscience, join them in extending — by the employment of the equitable maxims of estoppel and res judicata that, in my humble opinion, have no application here from either a legal or factual standpoint — the decision of this court in the prior case of California Co. v. Price, 225 La. 706, 74 So.2d 1, 29,1 to include the funds now deposited in the registry of the court from entirely different wells drilled in entirely…