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CHAMPLIN EXPLORATION, INC. v. WESTERN BRIDGE

No. 51326.

597 P.2d 1215 (1979)

CHAMPLIN EXPLORATION, INC., Appellant, v. WESTERN BRIDGE AND STEEL CO., INC., an Oklahoma Corporation, Dosan Refining Co., an Oklahoma Corporation, and Champlin Petroleum Company, a Delaware Corporation, and Jim Peckham, Appellees.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

July 17, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold J. Singer, Enid, for appellant.

Douglas C. McKeever, McKeever, Glasser, Conrad & Herlihy, Enid, for appellee, Champlin Petroleum Co.

DOOLIN, Justice:

We are called upon to decide, in this case, if a refiner loses title to refined hydrocarbons when they escape from him into the ground. To put it another way; are refined hydrocarbons subject to the law of capture when they escape into the ground?

We hold that an owner of refined hydrocarbons does not, ipso facto, lose title to escaped hydrocarbons unless it is shown by competent evidence that he...

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