Alice Shilling Lapeze, and Hiram Shilling, Intervenor-Appellant v. Amoco Production Co.

EDWIN F. HUNTER, Jr., District Judge.

Alice Shilling Lapeze and Hiram Shilling appeal the district court’s dismissal of their suit to cancel a mineral lease held by Amoco Production Company, 655 F.Supp. 1 (1987). We affirm.

The basis of the plaintiffs’ claim is essentially set forth in Paragraph 20 of the petition, as follows:

“Because shut-in royalties and/or delay rentals were not paid to the petitioners in accordance with the terms of the Lease, the Lease was terminated.”

The objective facts are not in dispute. On March 3, 1976, appellants’ father, Eugene Shilling executed a mineral lease in…