PONTCHARTRAIN GAS SYS. v. TEXAS BRINE CO.

2022 CA 0446 2021 CW 1266.

354 So.3d 48 (2022)

PONTCHARTRAIN NATURAL GAS SYSTEM, k/d/s Promix, L.L.C., and Acadian Gas Pipeline System v. TEXAS BRINE COMPANY, LLC.

Court of Appeal of Louisiana, First Circuit.

Judgment Rendered: October 24, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James M. Garner , Leopold Z. Sher , Peter L. Hilbert, Jr. , Darnell Bludworth , Jeffrey D. Kessler , Stuart D. Kottle , New Orleans, Louisiana, Robert Ryland Percy, III , Gonzales, Louisiana, Royce I. Duplessis , New Orleans, Louisiana, Travis J. Turner , Gonzales, Louisiana, Attorneys for Appellant/Defendant Texas Brine Company, LLC.

Martin A, Stem , Leigh Ann Schell , Raymond P. Ward , New Orleans, Louisiana, Kathy Patrick , Laura Kissel Cassidy , Caitlin Halpern , Samuel W. Cruse, III , Houston, Texas, Richard Hymel , Lafayette, Louisiana, Brad Brian , Bethany Kristovich , Daniel Levin Los Angeles, California, Attorneys for Appellants/Defendants Occidental Chemical Corporation, Occidental Petroleum Corporation, and OXY USA, Inc.

Roy C. Cheatwood , Kent A. Lambert , Adam B. Zuckerman , Colleen C. Jarrott , Matthew C. Juneau , Leopoldo J. Yanez , Lauren Brink Adams , New Orleans, Louisiana, Attorneys for Appellee/Defendant Legacy Vulcan, LLC.

BEFORE: THERIOT, HOLDRIDGE, AND LANIER, JJ.


This dispute is one of many arising out of the August 2012 sinkhole that appeared near Bayou Come in Assumption Parish. This appeal relates to a challenge by Texas Brine Company, LLC of a summary judgment declaring a lease, and other interdependent contracts, extinguished by confusion. In the answer filed to this appeal and related...

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