Arkansas Louisiana Gas Co. v. Morris

John I. Purtle, Justice.

The only issue on this appeal is whether the chancellor correctly granted class action certification. We affirm the chancellor’s decision.

The appellees filed this action alleging that they were representative of a class comprised of all “fixed price” lessors of several hundred mineral tracts in the Cecil Field located in Franklin, Crawford, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas. The appellees, whose “fixed price” leases were entered into during the 1940’s and 1950’s, want to be paid royalties on the new wells drilled in the Cecil Field based upon the “proceeds” from the…