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MULLINS v. WARD

No. 61785.

712 P.2d 55 (1985)

George H. MULLINS, Robert H. Mullins, Lee C. Hauschild and Beverly Gerard, Appellees, v. L.O. WARD, Ruth Mullins, Ladd Petroleum Corporation, Carl E. Gungoll, Kaiser Francis Oil Co., Hoover and Bracken Energies, Inc., Henry H. Gungoll Associates, B.P. Hall, Rod W. Ylitalo, Rocket Oil Company, Carolyn Houk, Gerald D. Neff, Francis Oil & Gas, Inc., George B. Kaiser, Ruth Nelson and Ernest L. Thomas, Appellants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

December 24, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

H.B. Watson, Jr., Richard K. Books, Stephen R. Pitcock, Watson & McKenzie, Oklahoma City, for appellees.

R.L. McKnight, McKnight, Gasaway, Beck, Seals & Smith, Enid, Carl Michael Smith, Gordon Brown, Brown & Lockhart, Oklahoma City, for appellants.

OPALA, Justice.

In this suit for accounting and cancellation of an oil-and-gas lease, four issues are tendered for our decision: [1] If a lessee enters and begins to drill a well with the acquiescence of some but not all cotenants in the mineral estate, is he liable to the nonacquiescing cotenants as a bad-faith trespasser? [2] Is the effective date of the Corporation Commission's [Commission's] despacing order dispositive...

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