Dietrich v. Davis

PRICE, Judge.

Plaintiffs have appealed from a judgment by the district court refusing to dissolve a gravel lease for nonpayment of delay rentals as required by the terms of the lease agreement.

On August 27, 1968, L. F. Pace leased approximately one thousand forty six acres of land in Webster Parish to defendant, L. I. Davis, “for the purpose of producing, mining and marketing sand, gravel, re-mix, pit run and wash gravel * * * ” This agreement provided the lessee was to pay fifteen cents per cubic yard for materials removed from the property, or, when the land was not being mined, $500…