Adkins v. Mustang Fuel Corp.

SIMMS, Justice:

This appeal is from the trial court’s denial of a petition in intervention in an action in mandamus brought by Mustang Fuel Corporation (Mustang) to force the Board of Commissioners of McClain County (Board) to issue a permit to lay Mustang’s pipeline for approximately three-fourths of a mile under a county dirt road. The attempted intervenor (landowner) owns land adjacent to the county road in question.

The trial court, in finding that the landowner was not a necessary party to the mandamus action, stated:

“The court is of the opinion that any acts that might be done by the…