Louisiana Family’s Long Legal Fight Over Texaco Drilling Lease Takes a Twist

The tenant was Texaco; the landlord the Broussard family, heirs of a Cajun rancher, who claimed that Texaco’s operation of a gas plant on their property had left the land contaminated. The lawsuit, of a kind not all that rare in these industry-heavy parts, had dragged on so long that 13 of the heirs had died.

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By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
The New York Times
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