PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCH. v. SHELL OIL CO.

Civ. A. No. J74-307(R).

539 F.Supp. 957 (1982)

The PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCHOOL, Ridgway Management, Inc., D'Lo Royalties, Inc., James H. Stewart, Jr., Rubinette Stewart, Diana Stewart Whitehead, Milton Monroe Stewart, Sr., Mrs. Willard Stewart Mitchell, Virginia Hansell Stewart, Individually, and as Trustee for the Benefit of Mrs. Carol Stewart Scott, Milton Monroe Stewart, Jr. and Thomas Hansell Stewart, Mrs. Maggie Fairley Spengler, Thomas L. Spengler, Albert L. Fairley, Jr. and James V. Fairley, Executors of the Estate of Alethe V. Fairley, Individually, and All Others Similarly Situated, Plaintiffs, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Defendant.

United States District Court, S. D. Mississippi, Jackson Division.

May 3, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ernest G. Taylor, Jr., Watkins, Pyle, Ludlam, Winter & Stennis, Kenneth I. Franks, George F. Woodliff, III, Heidelberg, Woodliff & Franks, L. Arnold Pyle, Barnett, Alagia & Pyle, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs.

W. F. Goodman, Jr., Paul Stephenson, Watkins & Eager, Jackson, Miss., Alvin B. Gibson, New Orleans, La., William Simon, Keith E. Pugh, Jr., James Robert Fox, Washington, D. C., for defendant.


OPINION

DAN M. RUSSELL, Jr., Chief Judge.

Piney Woods Country Life School, Ridgway Management, Inc. and other named plaintiffs brought the instant action, individually and on behalf of a putative class1 designated as all royalty owners in the Thomasville, Piney Woods and Southwest Piney Woods Fields, and other contiguous fields located in Rankin County, Mississippi, whose natural...

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