B.K. Sweeney Co. v. Colorado Interstate Gas Co‪.‬

2 The present litigation was occasioned by the explosion in the communication building at a compressor station near Keyes, Oklahoma on April 29, 1960. The suit was commenced in February 1962, by Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG), owner of the compressor station. CIG is a Colorado corporation domesticated in Oklahoma. As trustee of its insurer (by whom it had been indemnified), CIG sought to recover from B.K. Sweeney Company (Sweeney) damages which resulted from the explosion. Sweeney, also a Colorado corporation, has no registered agent in Oklahoma and is not licensed to do business in this state. The liability CIG sought to impose was predicated on Sweeneys alleged negligence (a) in supplying an auxiliary electric generator (powered by natural gas) with a defective "demand regulator" which failed to shut off the fuel while power was not being generated; and (b) in failing "to replace, repair or adjust" the devices designed to prevent the escape of natural gas when the generator was not in operation. Trial culminated in a judgment for CIG.