Exxon Corp. v. Barry

BOUTALL, Judge.

Exxon Corporation filed suit against Denis A. Barry and other owners of a seven acre tract of ground seeking specific performance of an agreement to establish a servitude upon a portion of the tract mea*827suring 30 feet by 6 feet for the purpose of erecting and maintaining a modular sign. The defendants reconvened for a declaratory judgment decreeing that the agreement is unenforceable as a matter of Louisiana law. Nearly all of the evidence was stipulated and the trial court rendered two judgments in favor of defendants, one dismissing plaintiff’s suit and one maintaining…