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TRI M PETROLEUM CO. v. GETTY OIL CO.

Nos. 85-4261, 85-4363.

792 F.2d 558 (1986)

TRI M PETROLEUM COMPANY, William E. Hathorn, R.C. Speights, Jr., and Thomas G. Bass, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. GETTY OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee. C.R. RIDGWAY, Jr. and First National Bank of Jackson as Co-Trustees of the W.S. Ridgway Trust, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. SHELL OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

June 25, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Glenn Gates Taylor, Harry E. Neblett, Jr., Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 85-4363.

Paul H. Stephenson, III, P.N. Harkins, III, Jackson, Miss., for defendant-appellee in No. 85-4363.

Dale H. McKibben, Donald Clark, Jr., Elias Lake Tolbert, Jackson, Miss., for plaintiffs-appellants in No. 85-4261.

Scott P. Hemleben, Jack W. Brand, Jackson, Miss., for defendant-appellee in No. 85-4261.

Before THORNBERRY, POLITZ, and RANDALL, Circuit Judges.

POLITZ, Circuit Judge:

In these two Mississippi diversity jurisdiction cases, consolidated for purposes of oral argument and disposition, plaintiffs-lessors appeal adverse summary judgments in suits to cancel oil and gas leases for nonproduction. Both Mississippi federal trial judges reached the same conclusion, ruling that the leases continued in force because of forced-pooling orders of the State Oil and Gas Board of Mississippi (the Board) and subsequent drilling...

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