UNIT DRILLING CO. v. ENRON OIL & GAS CO.

Nos. 95-7039, 95-7123 and 95-7125.

108 F.3d 1186 (1997)

UNIT DRILLING COMPANY, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. ENRON OIL & GAS COMPANY, Defendant-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Tenth Circuit.

March 4, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Spiegelberg, (Clifford K. Cate, Jr., and Sheila M. Powers with him on the brief) of Boesche, McDermott & Eskridge, Tulsa, OK, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

Jon Epstein (Donna N. Blakley with him on the brief) of Hall, Estill, Hardwick Gable, Golden & Nelson, P.C., Oklahoma City, OK, for Defendant-Appellee.

Before SEYMOUR, Chief Judge, and PORFILIO and EBEL, Circuit Judges.


EBEL, Circuit Judge.

Plaintiff-Appellant Unit Drilling Company sued Enron Oil & Gas Company to recover the contract price of drilling work that it had performed. The case was tried to a jury which returned an ambiguous verdict. The district court refused to ask the jury to clarify the verdict as requested by Unit, and ruled that Unit would recover no damages. We hold that the district court abused its discretion in refusing to clarify the verdict. We therefore...

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