Rogers v. Westhoma Oil Co.

BREITENSTEIN, Circuit Judge.

These 27 consolidated appeals are from separate judgments entered in declaratory judgment actions brought by lessors or their successors to determine whether the oil and gas leases involved had terminated as to all horizons below sea level at the expiration of their respective primary terms because of failure to obtain production. They present a common question of law bearing on similar and! undisputed facts. Tjventy-four of the actions were removed from Kansas state courts and three were filed originally in federal court. There is unquestioned diversity…