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CHESAPEAKE OPERATING v. NABORS DRILLING USA

Nos. 14-00-00173-CV, 14-00-00580-CV.

94 S.W.3d 163 (2002)

CHESAPEAKE OPERATING, INC., Appellant, v. NABORS DRILLING USA, INC., Appellee. Nabors Industries, Inc., Nabors Drilling USA, Inc., Nabors Loffland Drilling Co., and Nabors Energy Services, Inc., Appellants, v. Chesapeake Operating, Inc. and Chesapeake Energy Corp., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Houston (14th Dist.).

November 21, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Ammons, Maxine D. Goodman, Houston, for appellant (case no. 14-00-00173-CV).

Mark Pharr, Houston, for appellants (case no. 14-00-00580-CV).

Bradley A. Jackson, Elizabeth Wheeler, Mark Pharr, Houston, for appellee (case no. 14-00-00173-CV).

Mark Allen, Houston, for appellees (case no. 14-00-00580-CV).

Before the court en banc.

MAJORITY OPINION

SCOTT BRISTER, Chief Justice.

Two personal injury claims emerged from a drilling site in a Louisiana wood. Both followed the strangely well-worn path to trial courts in Texas. There, the tangle of Texas and Louisiana oilfield indemnity statutes led two very experienced trial judges to split results, and produced a similar split in this Court on both appeals. With the help of a specially appointed eleventh justice, we find Texas law has the...

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