DRESSER INDUSTRIES INC. v. SNELL

No. 08-91-00354-CV.

847 S.W.2d 367 (1993)

DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC., Titan Services, Inc., B.J. Services Company, U.S.A., Inc., B.J. Hughes Holding Company, Baker Hughes Production Tools, Inc., and Baker Hughes, Inc., Appellants, v. Glyn SNELL, et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Overruled March 3, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Corban, Fulbright & Jaworski, Houston, James E. Nelson, Shafer, Davis, McCollum, Ashley, O'Leary & Stoker, Odessa, Ronald D. Secrest, Beck, Redden & Secrest, Christopher C. Pappas, Dunn, Kacal, Adams, Pappas & Law, Houston, James P. Boldrick, Boldrick & Clifton, Midland, Mike A. Hatchell, Ramey, Flock, Jeffus, Crawford, Harper & Collins, Tyler, for appellants.

Don Graff, McCleskey, Harriger, Grazell & Graff, Lubbock, Vann Culp, Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc., Midland, Jim Hund, McCleskey, Harriger, Brazill & Graf, L.L.P., Lubbock, for appellees.

Before OSBORN, C.J., and BARAJAS and LARSEN, JJ.


OPINION

LARSEN, Justice.

This is an interlocutory appeal from an order certifying a class action under Tex. R.Civ.P. 42. The plaintiffs are owners of royalty or overriding royalty interests in one or more of 523 West Texas oil wells. We affirm the order certifying the case as a class action.

FACTS

This suit involves a number of oil wells operated by Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company. Some of the wells were not as productive as the...

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