Case Name: FLORIDA ROCK INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Counter, Defendant-Appellant, v. ESCAMBIA SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Counter, Claimant-Appellee
Court: United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit
Jurisdiction: United States
Decision Date: 2015-05-26
Citations: 606 F. App'x 541
Docket Number: No. 14-13032
Parties: FLORIDA ROCK INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Counter, Defendant-Appellant, v. ESCAMBIA SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Counter, Claimant-Appellee.
Judges: Before HULL, ANDERSON, and FARRIS, Circuit Judges..
Reporter: West's Federal Appendix
Volume: 606
Pages: 541–542

Head Matter:
FLORIDA ROCK INDUSTRIES, INC., Plaintiff-Counter, Defendant-Appellant, v. ESCAMBIA SAND & GRAVEL COMPANY, INC., Defendant-Counter, Claimant-Appellee.
No. 14-13032.
United States Court of Appeals, Eleventh Circuit.
May 26, 2015.
Hillary Lynn Chinigo, Matthew Howard Lembke, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings, LLP, Birmingham, AL, Michael D. Knight, McDowell Knight Roedder & Sledge, LLC, Mobile, AL, for Plaintiff-Appellant.
Bruce Jones McKee, John W. Haley, Hare Wynn Newell & Newton, LLP, Birmingham, AL, M. Warren Butler, Starnes Davis Florie, LLP, Mobile, AL, for Defendant-Appellee.
Before HULL, ANDERSON, and FARRIS, Circuit Judges..
Honorable Jerome Farris, United States Circuit Judge for the Ninth Circuit, sitting by designation.

Opinion:
PER CURIAM:
We have had the benefit of oral argument in this case and have carefully considered the briefs and the record. We affirm the judgment of the -district court on the basis of the comprehensive opinion of the district court dated June 6, 2014, with one caveat. We need not decide whether the potential adjustment to the forty-year term of the lease (i.e. an adjustment based upon a deviance from the expected volume-of mineral reserves on the smaller Fuller property) was mandatory, - or rather was subject only to the mutual agreement of the parties. In either case, for the reasons fully explored at oral argument, that would not transform the lease from one for years into a mere tenancy at will.
AFFIRMED