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FINLEY v. MARATHON OIL CO.

No. 95-2376.

75 F.3d 1225 (1996)

Florence I. FINLEY, Trustee, under U/D/T dated March 23, 1991, f/b/o John E. Finley, Sr., Trustee under U/D/T dated March 23, 1991 f/b/o Florence I. Finley, John E. Finley, Jr., and Julie Wright, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. MARATHON OIL COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit.

Decided February 14, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jerry D. Miller (argued), Bowen & Miller, Olney, IL, Robert E. Shaw, T. David Purcell, Mitchell, Neubauer, Shaw & Hanson, Mt. Vernon, IL, and James D. Stout, Bridgeport, IL, for plaintiff-appellant.

Jerome E. McDonald (argued) and Craig R. Hedin, Campbell, Black, Carnine & Hedin, Mt. Vernon, IL, for defendant-appellee.

Before POSNER, Chief Judge, and LAY and ROVNER, Circuit Judges.

POSNER, Chief Judge.

The appeal in this diversity suit presents interesting questions, exotic in this circuit, of oil and gas law, as well as questions concerning the application of amendments made in 1993 to the rules governing pretrial discovery in federal district courts.

The Finleys own two adjacent parcels of land in southern Illinois. At different times they leased oil and gas rights in the two parcels to Marathon Oil Company. The leases provided that...

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