Legal Opinion
Billiot v. State
Louisiana Court of Appeal
Decided April 12, 1995No. 94-1365PublishedCited by 4 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
|1SAUNDERS, Judge.
Plaintiffs were injured when their vessel struck a submerged well casing several hundred feet offshore. The well had been situated several hundred feet inland forty (40) years earlier, when it had been plugged and abandoned by Forest Oil Corporation, but was lost to the sea around 1974 due to ensuing wetlands loss.
The question presented on appeal is whether either the oil company lessee or the heirs of the original passive property owner may be held answerable for plaintiffs’ injuries. Following summary judgments in favor of both the oil producer and the heirs, plaintiffs…
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- Landry v. StateSupreme Court of Louisiana · 1986
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