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TENNECO OIL CO. v. DISTRICT COURT OF TWENTIETH JUD. DIST.

No. 43910.

465 P.2d 468 (1970)

TENNECO OIL COMPANY, Operator of the North Tatums Goodwin Sand Unit, Norville Oil Company, Rocket Oil Company, Cox-Alspaugh, David Beach, Kirkpatrick Oil Company, Teneco Oil Company, H.L. Gentry, Manly B. Brown, Jene Harper, Phillips Petroleum Co. and Kerr-McGee Corporation, Petitioners, v. The DISTRICT COURT OF the TWENTIETH JUDICIAL DISTRICT sitting in Ardmore, CARTER COUNTY, Oklahoma, and James H. Dillard, Judge of said court, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

February 3, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Fischl, Culp & McMillin, Ardmore, for petitioners.

Ritter & McGuire, Ardmore, for respondents.

HODGES, Justice.

Petitioners seek in this original action a writ of prohibition against the respondent judge prohibition him from exercising jurisdiction in a partition suit and for dissolution of a temporary injunction. The issue involved is the right of the trail court to partition oil and gas leases that have been previously unitized under an order of the Corporation Commission. We find the writ of prohibition should be granted.

In 1967, certain lease owners...

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