Legal Opinion
Finley v. Marathon Oil Co.
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided February 14, 1996No. 95-2376PublishedCited by 97 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POSNER, Chief Judge.
The appeal in this diversity suit presents interesting questions, exotic in this circuit, of oil and gas law, as well as questions concerning the application of amendments made in 1993 to the rules governing pretrial discovery in federal district courts.
The Finleys own two adjacent parcels of land in southern Illinois. At different times they leased oil and gas rights in the two parcels to Marathon Oil Company. The leases provided that the Finleys would receive one-sixth of any oil produced and Marathon would keep the other five-sixths as compensation for the risk and…
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