Dimock v. Kadane

OPINION

W.G. ARNOT, III, Chief Justice.

Joe W. Dimock (Dimoek) and E.W. Moran Drilling Company (Moran) brought this partition action against Louise Kadane, Michael L. Gustafson, and Carr Staley as Co-Trustees of the Louise Trust and Ka-dane II, L.L.C. (the Kadane Defendants); Mark W. Gray; and Michael L. Gustaf-son.1 Dimock, Moran, and the Defendants are tenants in common in oil and gas leases. In the trial court, Dimock and Moran sought a partition by sale of the parties’ undivided interests in the leases. The Ka-dane Defendants filed a counterclaim for declaratory judgment. They asserted that…