Tri M Petroleum Co. v. Getty Oil Co.

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 within the pooled unit. Concluding that the district courts correctly anticipated and applied Mississippi law, we affirm both…