SORENSON v. BAKKEN INVESTMENTS LLC

No. 20160319.

895 N.W.2d 302 (2017)

2017 ND 127

Craig and Barbara SORENSON, Plaintiffs and Appellees v. BAKKEN INVESTMENTS LLC, Creeping Cedar Oil, LLC, XTO Energy, Inc., Black Stone Minerals Co., LP, Pierce Exploration and Production Corp., Emile-Jean, Baesch-Muller, Ann-Marie Kienz Baesch, Milton S. Olson, Palmer and Doris Norby, Donald Karst, Wendell and Carole Tasker, Neal "Tuke" P. Burgess as Personal Representative for the Estate of Alan D. Burgess, Neal Burgess, Claire and Lois Bjorgen, William R. Anderson, LEAF Minerals, LLC, Ryan Masset, Peter Masset, Tricia Steffan, Kristi Anseth, Jay Anseth, Siri Njos, Avalon North, LLC, Red Rhino Resources, LLC, Dakota West Energy, Stallings Properties Ltd., Joe Gieb III, Sara Gieb, Peggy Helphrey, Wayne Sorenson, Richard Cernosek, Sacred Heart Church, Cyrill Kallus, Elizabeth Kallus, Marilyn Kallus Kothmann, Mike Kulhanek, Harry Mazurkiewicz, Joseph Hild, Gus Lindemann, David Machala, Kenneth Stevenson, William Everett, Danny Gumm, Randy Gumm, Bryan Gumm, Bakken Oil, LLC, Sundance Oil and Gas, LLC, Albert Frisch, Stallings Properties, LTD, Madeline Frisch, Miriam Philippe-Reuter, Marie Louise Frisch, Continental Resources, Inc., Newfield Production Co., Ashley Resources, Inc., Kodiak Oil and Gas, North Plains Energy, LLC, Maitre Fabienne Mondot, Theresa Pryor, and persons unknown claiming any estate or interest in, or lien or encumbrance upon, the mineral acres described in the complaint, Defendants and William Everett, Sara A. Gieb, Marilyn Kallus Kothmann, Elizabeth A. Kallus, Richard Cernosek, Bryan Gumm, Randy Gumm, Gus F. Lindemann, David F. Machala, Joe Gieb III, Stallings Properties Ltd., Joseph C. Hild, Mike Kulhanek, Kenneth Stevenson, and Harry Mazurkiewicz, Defendants and Appellants.

Supreme Court of North Dakota.

Filed May 18, 2017.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joshua A. Swanson , Fargo, N.D., for plaintiffs and appellees.

Shea A. Thomas (argued) and Nathan M. Bouray (appeared), Dickinson, N.D., for defendants and appellants.


[¶ 1] William Everett and 14 others (collectively "Everett defendants") appeal from a judgment quieting title to certain McKenzie County mineral interests in Craig and Barbara Sorenson against the Everett defendants. We affirm because collateral estoppel bars the Everett defendants...

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