EASON OIL CO. v. HOWARD ENGINEERING

No. 64926.

755 P.2d 669 (1988)

EASON OIL COMPANY, Atlantic Richfield Company, James S. Smith, Executor of the Estate of Arnold D. Freese, States Marine Corporation, Crawley Petroleum Company, Texas American Oil Corporation, Union Texas Petroleum Company, Devon Corporation, and P & O Oil Corporation, Appellees-Plaintiffs, v. HOWARD ENGINEERING, INC., H. Boyd Howard, Linda Kay Howard, Nathan Bailey, a minor by and through his legally appointed Guardian, Diane Bailey, Lyndra Bailey and Pamela Bailey, Appellants-Defendants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

May 10, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James C. Lang, Melinda J. Martin, Sneed, Lang, Adams, Hamilton, Downie & Barnett, Tulsa, and Lloyd Rowland, Rowland and Rowland, Bartlesville, for appellants-defendants.

Clyde A. Muchmore, Richard C. Ford, Judy Hamilton Morse, Crowe & Dunlevy, Oklahoma City, for appellees-plaintiffs.

Richard A. Paschal, Thomas M. Ladner, Hall, Estill, Hardwick, Gable, Collingsworth & Nelson, Inc., Tulsa, for Diamond Energy Co.


OPALA, Justice.

The dispositive issue here is whether the defendants' counterclaim constitutes a separable and unrelated cause of action whose disposition may result in a judgment.1 We answer in the negative, dismiss the appeal, and hold that the trial court's denial of summary judgment on the counterclaim did not determine an entire cause of action. This is so because the terminated counterclaim...

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