Saia v. City of Memphis Light, Gas & Water Division, Inc.

*207MEMORANDUM OPINION

JOHN V. PARKER, Chief Judge.

This is a diversity suit arising out of the sale and purchase of various mineral interests in a north Louisiana gas field known as the “Bayou Galion Field.” The primary legal issue involves application of Louisiana’s parol evidence rule. It is well settled that in a diversity action a federal court is bound to apply the parol evidence rule of the state in which it sits. Harville Rose Service v. Kellogg Company, 448 F.2d 1346 (5th Cir. 1971), cert. den., 405 U.S. 987, 92 S.Ct. 1248, 31 L.Ed.2d 453.

The legal issues are not particularly complicated,…