548 So. 2d 113 - Riddle v. Simmons’s Empirical Analysis
1989
Citation profile
6 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 6 later decisions — most recently February 2018
6 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Hayes v. Muller · 326 So. 2d 831 - Pence v. Ketchum · 449 So. 2d 448 - Owens v. Martin · Wattigney v. Government Employees Insurance Co. · 408 So. 2d 961 - Porter v. Johnson
Most-quoted passages
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“On September 23, 1983 Robert E. Riddle filed suit against Simmons and Louisiana State Gas Corporation. The petition, as initially amended, alleged that Riddle, C.H. Allen, Baker and Simmons had entered into a partnership to purchase and develop land which included benefits from certain existing gas agreements and the construction of a pipeline in connection therewith. Riddle alleged that Simmons, acting on behalf of Louisiana State Gas Corp., a corporation in which Simmons is the sole shareholder, converted the profits from the gas agreements and the constructed pipeline to his own use. Riddle asked for damages of $2,500,000. Defendants moved for summary judgment, and plaintiff amended his suit to allege that the agreement was one of joint venture. The motion for summary judgment was denied. On May 22, 1986 Baker filed a petition of intervention in this suit, and later an amending and supplemental petition of intervention. In these original and supplemental petitions Baker contended that he, Riddle, Allen and Simmons entered into a joint venture agreement to purchase and develop land. Each man had an area of expertise, and would use it to develop the property. Baker further alleged that they did purchase the property, and the former owner of the land transferred its right to receive gas from certain units producing oil and gas on the land to the new owners. The parties, in accordance with the joint venture, built a pipeline to transport the gas. Baker alleged Simmons breached”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“(w)hen the petition does not disclose whether the contract is oral or written, the admissibility of whatever testimony defendants may anticipate to establish this well alleged fact is not at issue on an exception of no cause of action”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
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