MONCRIEF v. LOUISIANA LAND & EXPLORATION CO.

Nos. 92-23, 92-24.

861 P.2d 516 (1993)

W.A. MONCRIEF, Jr., Appellant (Plaintiff), v. The LOUISIANA LAND AND EXPLORATION COMPANY; BHP Petroleum Company, Inc.; Inexco Oil Company; and North Central Oil Corporation, Appellees (Defendants). MYCO INDUSTRIES, INC. and Yates Drilling Company, Appellants (Plaintiffs), v. The LOUISIANA LAND AND EXPLORATION COMPANY; BHP Petroleum Company, Inc.; Inexco Oil Company; and North Central Oil Corporation, Appellees (Defendants).

Supreme Court of Wyoming.

Rehearing Denied December 9, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Morris R. Massey of Brown & Drew, Casper, Robert C. Grable of Kelly, Hart & Hallman, Fort Worth, TX, for appellant W.A. Moncrief, Jr. in No. 92-23.

Phillip Wm. Lear, Salt Lake City, UT, for appellants MYCO Industries, Inc. and Yates Drilling Co. in No. 92-24.

Marilyn Kite and Jack D. Palma, II of Holland & Hart, Cheyenne, Peter A. Bjork and James L. Simmons of Poulson, Odell & Peterson, Denver, CO, for appellees in Nos. 92-23, 92-24.

Before MACY, C.J., and THOMAS, CARDINE, GOLDEN and TAYLOR, JJ.


GOLDEN, Justice.

According to the parties, this declaratory judgment action involves the construction of unambiguous provisions of several written agreements relating to the non-consent drilling operations of a deep exploratory oil and gas well on acreage committed to the unitized field known as the Madden Deep Unit,1 and the application of those unambiguous provisions to undisputed facts.

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