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BRENNER v. MARATHON OIL CO.

Docket No. 188758.

565 N.W.2d 1 (1997)

222 Mich. App. 128

Patricia J. BRENNER, Orman Brooks, Robert J. Cox, David J. Driscoll, Dale R. Fulton, Robert Gifford, Nancy A. Keeling, Gerald M. Magda, Gerald Roth, Jacqueline Roth, Richard Smedley, Patricia J. Smedley, Carolyn E. Stiles, Gary Stiles, Phillip K. Wier, Bruce Weir, and William Peyton, Plaintiffs-Appellants, v. MARATHON OIL COMPANY, an Ohio corporation, Patrick Petroleum, a Delaware corporation, James A. Knight, John V. Martin, Robert N. Minto, James Michelson, and Scandia Energy Company, a Michigan corporation, Defendants-Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Michigan.

Decided March 4, 1997, 9:10 a.m.

Released for Publication May 15, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Parker & Adams, P.C. by James D. Adams, Jackson, for Patricia J. Brenner and others.

Mika, Meyers, Beckett & Jones, P.L.C. by John M. DeVries and Elizabeth K. Bransdorfer, Grand Rapids, for Marathon Oil Company and others.

Foster, Swift, Collins & Smith, P.C. by Webb A. Smith, Lansing, for James A. Knight.

Before McDONALD, P.J., and BANDSTRA and C.L. BOSMAN, JJ.

BANDSTRA, Judge.

In this class action, plaintiffs sought damages for breach of contract from defendants with respect to plaintiffs' royalty interests in certain oil and gas wells. Plaintiffs appeal as of right a final judgment entered against them that awarded them $300,000 as a complete compromise of their claims. We reverse and remand.

Plaintiffs' initial complaint was filed in 1990; a motion for class certification...

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