Legal Opinion
Piney Woods Country Life School v. Shell Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided March 8, 1984No. 82-4287PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WISDOM, Circuit Judge:
This case concerns the interpretation of royalty clauses in certain Mississippi oil and gas leases. The plaintiffs are the owners of mineral rights in the Thomasville, Piney Woods, and Southwest Piney Woods fields in Rankin County, Mississippi. They leased their rights to defendant Shell Oil Company through various conveyances beginning in the mid-1960s. The cause of this controversy, as in many similar suits across the country, was the unforeseen and unprecedented rise in natural gas prices brought on principally by the actions of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting…
2Cases cited39 opinions
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- Exxon Corp. v. MiddletonTexas Supreme Court · 1981
- Texas Oil & Gas Corporation v. VelaTexas Supreme Court · 1968
- Lightcap v. Mobil Oil CorporationSupreme Court of Kansas · 1977
- Weymouth v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co.Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1966
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- Southern Natural Gas Company, Cross-Appellee v. Pursue Energy, Cross-AppellantCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1986
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