James Clark v. Amoco Production Company

JERRY E. SMITH, Circuit Judge:

Plaintiffs James Clark and Dan Profitt, in their capacity as administrators of James R. Meadors’s estate, brought this diversity suit in federal district court against four oil companies that allegedly had extracted, without payment or permission, billions of dollars worth of oil and gas from lands in which Meadors owned a one-eighth interest. The district court granted summary judgment in favor of the defendant oil companies, concluding that the deed upon which the plaintiffs based their claim conveyed rights only to four specified tracts of land in which the…