Scurlock Oil Co. v. Getty Oil Co.

WATSON, Judge.

Plaintiff-in-reconvention, Robert L. Waterbury, has appealed from a trial court judgment which: dismissed his reconven-tional demand against defendant-in-recon-vention, Scurlock Oil Company; sustained Scurlock’s peremptory exception of res judi-cata; and granted Scurlock a summary judgment.

The litigation commenced as a concursus proceeding by Scurlock, which purchased the production from a unit well in St. Landry Parish. The question of who was entitled to the proceeds of the well has previously been litigated in Scurlock Oil Company v. Getty Oil Company, 278 So.2d 851 (La.App.…