MITCHELL v. AMERADA HESS CORP.

Nos. 53204 to 53216.

638 P.2d 441 (1981)

Alva T. MITCHELL and Ida Belle Mitchell; and Energy Reserves Group, Inc., a corporation, et al., Appellees, v. AMERADA HESS CORPORATION, a corporation; Amoco Production Company, a corporation; Odessa Natural Corporation, a corporation; Pioneer Production Corporation, a corporation; Flag Redfern Oil Company, a corporation; Claremont Corporation, a corporation; Sabine Production Company, a corporation; and Sun Oil Co., (Delaware), a corporation, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearing Denied January 18, 1982.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.B. Watson, Jr., Richard K. Books, Watson, McKenzie & Moricoli, Oklahoma City, for appellees/cross-appellants.

C. Harold Thweatt, Val R. Miller, Crowe, Dunlevy, Thweatt, Swinford, Johnson & Burdick, Oklahoma City and Jerry L. Pickerill, Tulsa, for appellants, Amerada Hess Corp., Amoco Production Co.; Pioneer Production Corp., Flag Redfern Oil Co., Claremont Corp.; Sabine Production Co., and Sun Oil Co., (Del.).

James H. Lockhart, Gordon F. Brown, Brown & Lockhart, Oklahoma City, for appellant, Odessa Natural Corp.


HARGRAVE, Justice.

This appeal arises from the trial of 18 actions to cancel oil and gas leases in the District Court of Ellis County, Oklahoma, the Honorable Charles M. Wilson, presiding. This appeal refers to 13 of the 18 cases consolidated for trial to the extent that the evidence presented would apply to each separate case. The balance of five actions, being against Shell Oil Company, have not been appealed. A judgment...

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