Energy Development Corp. v. Quality Environmental Processes, Inc.

| aDALEY, Judge.

Plaintiff, Energy Development Corporation (EDC), appeals a Summary Judgment granted in favor of defendants, Quality Environmental Processes, Inc., Michael X. St. Martin and Virginia Rayne St. Martin (the St. Martin Group), which held that the mineral servitudes claimed by plaintiff had prescribed by ten years non use. We vacate the grant of Summary Judgment and remand for the reasons below.

The St. Martin Group are the surface owners of various tracts of land in Terre-bonne Parish (the “Protective Area” or the St. Martin tracts). Plaintiff EDC is record owner of several mineral…