Jeff Tompkins and Chris Nunnallee will soon refile a lawsuit they hope will settle a father/son dispute over a profitable Louisiana oil and gas lease. But first, the Houston solos had to convince the Fourteenth Court of Appeals to give them a second chance.

The background to the dispute, according to the Fourteenth Court’s Dec. 23 decision in Genesis Producing v. Smith Big Oil, is as follows.

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