WILLIAMS v. VINTAGE PETROLEUM, INC.

No. 1999-CA-01628-COA.

825 So.2d 685 (2002)

Henry Lee WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. VINTAGE PETROLEUM, INC. and G.B. "Boots" Smith Corporation, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Mississippi.

Rehearing Denied May 14, 2002.

Certiorari Denied September 5, 2002.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Hardin Holmes, Glenn Louis White, Petal, John D. Smallwood, Tupelo, Stuart H. Smith, New Orleans, LA, attorneys for appellant.

Otis Johnson, David M. McMullan, Jr., Jackson, attorneys for appellees.

EN BANC.


MYERS, J., for the court.

¶ 1. Henry Lee Williams appeals the decision of the Jones County Circuit Court. His stated issues are whether res judicata bars a second action when there was no disposition on the merits of the first action and whether res judicata can be applied barring a second action, when the claims of the first action were not present in the second action.

FACTS

¶ 2. In the 1960s several oil companies drilled on Viola Williams...

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