CAPPS v. WEFLEN

No. 20120184.

826 N.W.2d 605 (2013)

2013 ND 16

Patricia R. CAPPS, f/k/a Patricia Anderson, Terrel A. Anderson, a/k/a Terral Anderson, Gerald C. Wools, Penny Brinks, Michael Lee, Gwen Hassan, Melissa Kellor, and the Estate of Ruth A. Nelson, Deceased, Plaintiffs. Patricia R. Capps, f/k/a Patricia Anderson, Terrel A. Anderson, a/k/a Terral Anderson, Penny Brinks, Michael Lee, Gwen Hassan, and Melissa Kellor, Appellees v. Colleen L. WEFLEN, a/k/a Colleen Weflen, a single woman, Marleen Weflen, f/k/a Marleen W. Tiedt, Sharon Kruse, a/k/a Sharon O. Kruse f/k/a Sharon Weflen, a married woman dealing in her sole and separate property, Catherine Harris f/k/a Catherine Gunderson, a single woman, Norris Weflen, a/k/a Norris L. Weflen, a single man, Windsor Bakken, LLC, a Delaware Limited Liability Company, Gulfport Energy Corporation, and EOG Resources, Inc., Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

January 29, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Zachary Evan Pelham (argued) and Patrick W. Durick (on brief), Bismarck, ND, for appellees Patricia Capps and Terrel Anderson.

David Justin Smith (argued) and Sheldon A. Smith (on brief), Bismarck, ND, for appellees Penny Brink, Gwen Hassan, Melissa Kellor, Michael Lee, and the Estate of Ruth A. Nelson.

Richard P. Olson (argued), Wanda L. Fischer (on brief) and Andrew Timothy Forward (on brief), Minot, ND, for appellants Catherine Harris f/k/a Cathy Gunderson, Sharon Kruse, Colleen Weflen, Marlene Weflen, and Norris Weflen.

Monte L. Rogneby (argued), Bismarck, ND, and James Lee Mowry (on brief), Stephen Thomas Throne (on brief), and Jacob T. Haseman (on brief) (not licensed in ND), Throne Law Office, P.C., Sheridan, WY, for appellants Gulfport Energy Corporation and Windsor Bakken, LLC.

Amy Lynn De Kok (argued), Lawrence Bender (on brief), and Jillian Rene Rupnow (on brief), Bismarck, ND, for appellant EOG Resources Inc.

Matthew Arnold Sagsveen , Assistant Attorney General, Office of Attorney General, Bismarck, ND, for amicus curiae.


CROTHERS, Justice.

[¶ 1] Colleen Weflen, Marleen Weflen, Sharon Kruse, Catherine Harris, Norris Weflen, Windsor Bakken, LLC, Gulfport Energy Corp. and EOG Resources, Inc., appeal a district court judgment vacating a previous order granting Weflens' motion for summary judgment, granting Capps' motion for summary judgment and finding Weflens had no claim to a one-half mineral interest reserved by Ruth Nelson in 1975. We dismiss Weflens' appeal, concluding the district...

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