Marlborough Oil & Gas, L. L.C. v. Baker Hughes Oil Field Operations, Inc.

A contractor that provided equipment and supplies to a lessee for work on a well that was ultimately found to be a dry hole, appeals a declaratory judgment finding that an oil well lien perfected by the contractor is "of no legal effect" as to a mineral servitude holder and a second well located in the same field as the well for which the services, equipment, and supplies supporting *104the lien were provided. For the following reasons, we reverse.

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

Through a series of transactions, Marlborough Oil & Gas, LLC acquired ownership of a mineral servitude, and pursuant to its…