Coastal Petroleum Co. v. Mobil Oil Corp.

378 So.2d 336 (1980)

COASTAL PETROLEUM COMPANY, Appellant,

v.

MOBIL OIL CORPORATION, Appellee.

No. NN-119.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, First District.

January 11, 1980.

Robert J. Angerer, Joseph C. Jacobs of Ervin, Varn, Jacobs, Odom & Kitchen, Tallahassee, C. Dean Reasoner of Reasoner, Davis & Vinson, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Julian D. Clarkson, Tampa, Hume F. Coleman and F. Alan Cummings of Holland & Knight, Tallahassee, for appellee.

SHIVERS, Judge.

Coastal is the lessee from the State of Florida of three state drilling leases covering some four million acres of sovereign land. On…