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Nature of Suit Code: 190
Nature of Suit: Other Contract Actions
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UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEAfi~tt:d States Court of Al'l'Cals 

Tenth Circuit 

FOR THE TENTH CIRCUIT 

KOCH REFINING COMPANY, 

Plaintiff-Appellee, 

v. 

EXXON CORPORATION; EXXON GAS 

SYSTEM, INC.; HUMBLE GAS 

TRANSMISSION COMPANY, 

Defendants-Appellants. 

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ORDER AND JUDGMENT* 

JUN 2 7 1990 

ROBERT L. HOECKER 

Clerk 

No. 89-3084 

(D.C. No. 85-1136-T) 

(D. Kan.) 

Before MOORE, BRIGHT,** and BRORBY, Circuit Judges. 

**Honorable Myron H. Bright, Circuit Judge, United States Court of 

Appeals for the Eighth Circuit, sitting by d~signation. 

Defendants appeal from an adverse judgment entered by the 

district court on a special jury verdict. The district court 

subsequently reaffirmed the judgment in an opinion and order 

denying defendants' motion for new trial. 

Plaintiff brought this action seeking a declaratory judgment 

determining its remaining payment obligations with respect to a 

twenty-year gas requirements contract that expired by its terms on 

* This order and judgment has no precedential value and shall 

not be cited, or used by any court within the Tenth Circuit, 

except for purposes of establishing the doctrines of the law of 

the case, res judicata, or collateral estoppel. 10th Cir. R. 

36.3. 

Appellate Case: 89-3084 Document: 010110037432 Date Filed: 06/27/1990 Page: 1 
December 31, 1984. Defendants counterclaimed to obtain additional 

compensation, over and above the bargain contract price, for gas 

taken by plaintiff that was allegedly in excess of the maximum 

specified therein. The jury determined that by billing and 

accepting payment at the contract price for all gas supplied to 

plaintiff, without regard for contract limitations on quantity, 

defendants waived any right to further compensation. 

Upon consideration of the issues raised and arguments 

advanced by the parties, we conclude that defendants have failed 

to establish the existence of any reversible error in the 

proceedings below. The jury's special verdict in favor of 

plaintiff on waiver grounds stands. 

The judgment of the United States District Court for the 

District of Kansas is AFFIRMED. 

ENTERED FOR T~E COURT 

PER CURIAM 

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Appellate Case: 89-3084 Document: 010110037432 Date Filed: 06/27/1990 Page: 2