Melancon v. Texas Company

Decided May 7, 1956. E. Howard MCCALEB wrote the opinion for the court.

89 So. 2d 135 · Cited 76 times

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Precedents cited

Decisions in our collection this opinion relies on, ordered by how often it cites each. Cases we publish link through; others open the full text.

• Wier v. Grubb · 82 So. 2d 1
• Hunt Trust v. Crowell Land Mineral Corporation · 28 So. 2d 669
• Rhodes v. Collier · 41 So. 2d 669
• Bates v. Blitz · 17 So. 2d 816
• Milling v. Collector of Revenue · 57 So. 2d 679
• Brown v. Sugar Creek Syndicate · 197 So. 583
• Succession of Yeates · 35 So. 2d 210
• Pearlstine v. Mattes · 67 So. 2d 582
• Coyle v. North American Oil Consolidated · 9 So. 2d 473
• Rudnick v. Union Producing Co. · 25 So. 2d 906
• Eota Realty Co. v. Carter Oil Co. · 74 So. 2d 30
• Burglass v. Villere · 129 So. 209
• Olivier's Minor Children v. Olivier · 40 So. 2d 803
• Nunley v. Shell Oil Company · 86 So. 2d 62
• Risinger v. Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co. · 3 So. 2d 289
• Noel Estate, Inc. v. Louisiana Oil Refining Corp. · 175 So. 744
• Bourgeois v. Bourgeois · 12 So. 2d 278
• Schultz v. Texas & P. Ry. Co. · 186 So. 49

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• Pierce v. Atlantic Refining Company · 140 So. 2d 19
• Bollinger v. Texas Company · 95 So. 2d 132
• Melancon v. Republic Petroleum Corp. · 250 La. 464
• Hibbert v. Mudd · 294 So. 2d 518
• Conny Farms, Ltd. v. Ball Resources, Inc. · 2011 Ohio 5472
• Touchet v. Humble Oil & Refining Company · 191 F. Supp. 291
• Bouterie v. Kleinpeter · 247 So. 2d 548
• Dawes v. Hale · 421 So. 2d 1208
• Harris v. JC Trahan Drilling Contractor, Inc. · 168 So. 2d 881
• Goodrich v. Exxon Co., USA · 608 So. 2d 1019
• Wellman v. Energy Resources, Inc. · 557 S.E.2d 254
• Frey v. Amoco Production Co. · 603 So. 2d 166
• Thomas W. Hooley & Sons v. Zurich General Accident & Liability Insurance · 103 So. 2d 449
• Monk v. Monk · 144 So. 2d 384
• McDonald v. Grande Corporation · 148 So. 2d 441
• Davis v. Laster · 138 So. 2d 558
• Sellers v. Continental Oil Company · 168 So. 2d 435
• Succession of Doll v. Doll · 593 So. 2d 1239
• Broadhead v. Pan American Petroleum Corporation · 166 So. 2d 329
• Vaughan v. Dowling · 144 So. 2d 371
• Hall v. Arkansas-Louisiana Gas Co. · 359 So. 2d 255
• Waddle v. Lucky Strike Oil Co., Inc. · 551 S.W.2d 323
• Sohio Petroleum Co. v. Millers · 237 La. 1015
• Mire v. Sunray DX Oil Company · 285 F. Supp. 885
• Williams v. Humble Oil & Refining Company · 290 F. Supp. 408

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