DAVIS v. CONSOLIDATED OIL & GAS, INC.

No. 89-63.

802 P.2d 840 (1990)

John DAVIS; Wayne Barnett; Fred Barnett; Clair Cheatham and Vida Cheatham, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. CONSOLIDATED OIL & GAS, INC., a Colorado Corporation, successor in interest to Vanderbilt Resources Corporation, a Texas Corporation and Vanderbilt Energy Corporation, a Texas Corporation; Adobe Resources Corporation, a Delaware Corporation; The Grayrock Corporation, a Texas Corporation, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied January 11, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

P. Richard Meyer and Robert N. Williams of Meyer & Williams, Jackson, and Henry C. Phibbs II of Phibbs & Resor, Jackson, for appellants.

James R. Miller and Kurt C. Weiss of Baker & Hostetler, Denver, Colo., for appellee Consolidated Oil and Gas, Inc.

Cameron Walker, of Schwartz, Bon, McCrary & Walker, Casper, for appellees Adobe Resources Corp., Grayrock Corp., Vanderbilt Resources Corp. and Vanderbilt Energy Corp.

Before URBIGKIT, C.J., THOMAS, CARDINE and GOLDEN, JJ., and ROONEY, J., Retired.


ROONEY, Justice, Retired.

Appellants are engaged in ranching and farming operations about seven miles east of Greybull. Appellees1 were involved in drilling, plugging and abandoning of an oil and gas well located about one mile from appellants' properties. The well was drilled over 2,900 feet into the Madison Formation where it encountered pressurized water. Contending that failure to properly plug and abandon the well resulted in salty...

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