Tri-State Oil Tool Industries, Inc. v. EMC Energies, Inc.

ROSE, Justice.

Tri-State Oil Tool Industries, Inc., herein referred to as Tri-State, appeals a decision of the District Court of Campbell County granting a summary judgment by which it was denied foreclosure of its materialman’s lien against the properties of the appellee, EMC Energies, Inc., spoken of herein as EMC.

During the early part of 1974 EMC hired Grebe Drilling Company to drill an oil well on a leasehold owned by EMC in the Dead Horse Field, Campbell County, Wyoming. Grebe Drilling in turn hired Tri-State, an oil field service company to do the actual drilling on the lease. After the…