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SPARKS BROS. DRILLING v. TEXAS MORAN EXPLORATION

No. 71214.

829 P.2d 951 (1991)

SPARKS BROTHERS DRILLING CO., a Texas Corporation, Appellee, v. TEXAS MORAN EXPLORATION COMPANY, Appellant, and J.W. Pump & Supply, Inc., Appellee, and Pintex Petroleum Corp.; Sally A. Niver; Illana Beigleman; Yvonne Wood; Adrienne A. Powell; Glenn F. Thomas; Raymond E. Cooper, Jr.; John E. Morris; Garth Jones; Homer J. Clark; Ollie Kinney; Hali, Inc.; IMR Oil and Gas Program; Frank Mahnich; G. Douglas Pritchard; James H. Etzel; Arnold S. Leonard; John Edward Shimota; Sheldon I. Greenburg; Dr. Gilbert Zeilder; Jo Ann Thomas; Gatesby Energy, Inc.; Rick Scrimshire; Evelyn I. Whaley; Dr. Ronald Barlow; Glenco Petroleum Corporation; Robert Shimota; Dowell Schlumberger; Incorporated, a Delaware Corporation; Leo Smith Oil Company; and Howard Drilling Co., A Partnership, Phillip Howard, Partner, Defendants.

Supreme Court of Oklahoma.

Rehearings Denied May 19, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Otis C. Shearer, Lemon, Shearer & Ehrlich, Booker, for appellant.

Joe Jackson, Shattuck, for appellee Sparks Bros. Drilling Co.

G.W. Armor, Laverne, for appellee J.W. Pump & Supply.

W. Blank Williamson, Thomas P. Schroedter, Donald S. Smith, Prayer, Walker, Jackman, Williamson & Marlar, Tulsa, for amicus curiae Oklahoma Independent Petroleum Ass'n.

HODGES, Vice Chief Justice.

This case is appealed from a district court decision holding the defendant, Texas Moran Exploration Company (Texas Moran), liable for services and materials furnished in the completion of a well. The dispositive issue is whether Texas Moran was a mining partner of the operator of the well. If a mining partnership exists, then Texas Moran is jointly and severally liable for the costs incurred. ...

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