Amerada Hess Corp. v. Furlong Oil & Minerals Co.

SAND, Justice.

Amerada Hess Corporation appealed from a judgment denying its requested injunction prohibiting Furlong Oil and Minerals Company from using the K-119 well bore and awarding Furlong damages for work stoppages caused by the issuance of a temporary restraining order sought and received by Amerada. Furlong cross-appealed from that portion of the judgment determining that Furlong was not entitled to punitive damages. We affirm in part and remand for further proceedings.

On 26 October 1949, Clifford A. Syverson and Alice 0. Syverson leased their oil and gas interest in a parcel of land…