Trunkline Gas Company v. Steen

The Court of Appeal has succinctly stated the issue of this case to be: “Where a drilling unit is created by order of the Commissioner of the Department of Conservation and a tract of land burdened with a mineral servitude is located partly within and partly without the drilling unit does a unit well drilled on 'the part in the unit, interrupt prescription as to the entire mineral servitude, both within and without the unit?” 179 So.2d 546.

The trial court held that the drilling was only a user'of that portion of the servitude within the unit and that prescription was not interrupted as'to the…