Exxon Co., U.S.A. v. District Court of Kingfisher County, Fourth Judicial District

WILLIAMS, Justice.

This is an application by Exxon Company for this Court to assume original jurisdiction and issue writs of mandamus and prohibition to the respondent judge of the District Court of Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, preventing him from proceeding to trial in a certain action now pending in that court, and directing him to vacate an order sustaining plaintiffs’ objections to certain interrogatories propounded by defendant, Exxon, to the plaintiffs.

The record shows that plaintiffs below sued the defendant, Exxon, for damages allegedly resulting from several leaks in a pipeline…