Legal Opinion
Mitchell Energy Corporation, Maurice Sherman Bliss, Intervenors v. Samson Resources Company
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
Decided January 11, 1996No. 95-40204PublishedCited by 37 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
WIENER, Circuit Judge:
In the action underlying this appeal, a jury found Defendanb-Appellant Samson Resources Company (Samson), the lessee/operator of a gas well (the Well), liable for conversion and fraud for its failure to disclose and pay amounts owed to the Appellees as a result of gas production from the Well. Plaintiff-Appellee Mitchell Energy Corporation (Mitchell) is Samson’s unleased coten-ant 1 in the mineral interests involved in this case; Intervenors-Appellees Maurice Bliss, et al. (Intervenors), lessors of oil and gas leases now owned by Samson, were treated as unleased…
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