Legal Opinion
Koch Industries, Inc. v. Mobil Oil Corp.
Temporary Emergency Court of Appeals
Decided April 7, 1992No. 10-88PublishedCited by 17 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GRANT, Judge.
Koch Industries, Inc. [Koch] is appealing an order granting summary judgment in favor of Mobil Oil Corporation [Mobil] on its third-party complaint against Koch. The central issue of the appeal is whether Koch can be held liable to Mobil under the federal common law for restitution or reimbursement.
It is undisputed that Mobil, an operator of crude oil properties with injection wells in Oklahoma and other states, certified its properties as stripper wells. Before the courts finally determined that such classification violated petroleum price regulations, Mobil paid into a…
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