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

No. 82-4287.

726 F.2d 225 (1984)

The PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCHOOL, Ridgway Management, Inc., D'Lo Royalties, Inc., 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-Appellants, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 8, 1984.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Watkins & Eager, William F. Goodman, Jr., Paul H. Stephenson, III, Jackson, Miss., for defendant-appellee.

Before BROWN, WISDOM and JOHNSON, Circuit Judges.

WISDOM, Circuit Judge:

This case concerns the interpretation of royalty clauses in certain Mississippi oil and gas leases. The plaintiffs are the owners of mineral rights in the Thomasville, Piney Woods, and Southwest Piney Woods fields in Rankin County, Mississippi. They leased their rights to defendant Shell Oil Company through various conveyances beginning in the mid-1960s. The cause of this controversy, as in many similar suits across the country, was the unforeseen...

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