Mills v. Damson Oil Corp.

GARWOOD, Circuit Judge:

This is an appeal from a judgment for appellees cancelling appellants’ title claims to minerals. Because the disposition of this appeal raises important unresolved questions concerning the Mississippi real property law of constructive notice to bona fide purchasers and the doctrine of after-acquired title, we have decided to certify these questions to the Supreme Court of Mississippi pursuant to that court’s certification procedure, Miss.Sup.Ct.R. 46.1

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FACTS

The Federal Land Bank of New Orleans owned the surface and all of the minerals under a tract of land in Wayne…