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TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPELINE CORP. v. STATE OIL AND GAS BD.

No. 55071.

457 So.2d 1298 (1984)

TRANSCONTINENTAL GAS PIPELINE CORPORATION v. The STATE OIL AND GAS BOARD OF MISSISSIPPI and Coastal Exploration, Inc., et al.

Supreme Court of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied October 3, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John M. Grower, Jefferson D. Stewart, R. Wilson Montjoy, II, Brunini, Grantham, Grower & Hewes, Jackson, for appellant.

John Land McDavid, W. Eric West, McDavid & Noblin, Kenneth I. Franks, Glenn Gates Taylor, James Russell Tucker, Heidelberg, Woodliff & Franks, Jackson, Vernon L. Terrell, Jr., New Orleans, La., Walker L. Watters, William R. Presson, Gerald, Brand, Watters, Cox & Hemleben, Bill Allain, Atty. Gen., by P.L. Douglas, First Asst. Atty. Gen., Jackson, for appellees.

Before ROY NOBLE LEE, P.J., and ROBERTSON and SULLIVAN, JJ.

ROBERTSON, Justice, for the Court:

I. Introduction

This appeal arises out of a controversy regarding well head sales of natural gas produced in Marion County, Mississippi. This litigation has been conducted in the vortex of tensions created by collisions among basic principles of geology, economics and law when applied in a context where each litigant pursues self-interest.

The geological phenomenon of drainage necessitates, if considerations...

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