SCOTT PAPER CO. v. TASLOG, INC.

No. 79-3524.

638 F.2d 790 (1981)

SCOTT PAPER COMPANY, a Pennsylvania Corporation, International Paper Company, a corporation, St. Regis Paper Co., a corporation, Koppers Company, Inc., a corporation, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. TASLOG, INC., an Alabama Corporation, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit. Unit B.

March 2, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marshall J. DeMouy, Edward G. Hawkins, Mobile, Ala., for plaintiffs-appellants.

William L. Smith, John M. Grower, Jackson, Miss., James E. Hart, Jr., Brewton, Ala., for defendant-appellee.

Before MORGAN, FAY and FRANK M. JOHNSON, Jr., Circuit Judges.


LEWIS R. MORGAN, Circuit Judge:

Scott Paper Company, International Paper Company, St. Regis Paper Company, and Koppers Company own large tracts of land encumbered by an oil and gas royalty owned by Taslog, Inc. A dispute arose between the appellant paper companies and Taslog over whether Taslog's royalty burdened the entire gas stream produced from appellants' wells, including hydrogen sulfide gas, or whether it was limited to merely the hydrocarbon elements of the...

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