BOTTOMS v. DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC.

No. 84-1437.

797 F.2d 869 (1986)

Clifford C. BOTTOMS, Plaintiff-Appellee, v. DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC., Defendant-Appellee, Kenneth Foster, Applicant for Intervention-Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

Rehearing Denied October 15, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan Agee of Garvin, Agee & Meisel, Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, for appellant Kenneth Foster.

Jerry J. Dunlap (Gary Peterson of Dunlap & Codding, with him on briefs), Oklahoma City, Okl., for plaintiff-appellee Clifford C. Bottoms.

Charles F. Alden III (Page Dobson of Holloway, Dobson, Hudson & Bachman, Oklahoma City, Okl., and Rodney K. Caldwell of Arnold, White & Durkee, Houston, Tex., of counsel, with him on brief), for defendant-appellee Dresser Industries, Inc.

Before LOGAN, SETH, and SEYMOUR, Circuit Judges.


LOGAN, Circuit Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether the district court correctly denied appellant Kenneth Foster's motion to intervene as of right pursuant to Fed.R.Civ.P. 24(a)(2). We affirm.

Foster attempted to intervene in an action Clifford C. Bottoms had initiated against Dresser Industries, Inc. to recover royalties pursuant to a 1971 agreement. In that agreement, Bottoms assigned Dresser his interest in an oil well drilling tool on which Bottoms...

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