Public court records · Cass County, Missouri
JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC carries 3 unpaid Missouri judgments totaling $32,426.
If you are checking out a Yoakum before you hire one, start here. JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC is run by Jesse Yoakum, Jr. One of its judgments, in Clay County, was entered on four counts including fraudulent misrepresentation. As of July 27, 2026, none was recorded as paid.
His father, Jesse Alan Yoakum, runs Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling. It is a separate business with no customer judgments against it, and the two are easy to confuse: the son’s company has shown up to a job in a truck marked with the father’s business name.
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Which Yoakum is which
There are three Yoakums in this record: a father and two of his sons. The father and one son run businesses that are easy to mix up. The other son runs his own company, and none of this is about him.
The son
Jesse Yoakum, Jr.
Also appears as Jesse Yoakum, and as Jesse Silas Yoakum in a Texas court filing and his Missouri DNR permit record.
JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC
- A Missouri LLC formed in 2007. This site is mostly about this business.
- 3 unpaid Missouri judgments totaling $32,426, including a Clay County judgment for fraudulent misrepresentation.
- Sued three times in Texas and once in Nevada.
- His Missouri well permit, number 004143, is inactive. The LLC holds no well permit.
The father
Jesse Alan Yoakum
Missouri's permit record lists him as Jesse Yoakum.
Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling
- A name he does business under, not a registered company. Its Missouri name registration expired in 2017.
- Holds Missouri DNR well permit 002231, active, and Kansas licence 595. USDOT 1187767.
- No customer judgments found. He is a defendant in two Cass County cases that have not been decided: a customer's fraud and breach of contract suit, and his insurer's suit to avoid covering it.
- The State of Missouri recorded employment security judgments against him in 1999 and 2000, and a tax lien against the business in 2011.
The other son
Matthew Yoakum
State records list him as Matty Yoakum.
Yoakum Well Drilling & Pump Co.
- Holds his own active Missouri DNR permit, 006317, and Kansas licence 1008.
- None of the complaints on this site are about him or his company.
- He is the plaintiff in one family case listed here, asking the court to enforce a settlement with his brother.
Five things to know before you hire a Yoakum
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The judgments are against the son's company.
3 unpaid Missouri judgments totaling $32,426 name JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC or Jesse Yoakum, Jr. A fourth, for $6,275 in 2022, names only “Jesse Yoakum” and could be either man, so it is not counted against either business.
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The son's company shows up under the father's name.
On a 2024 well-plugging job in Grandview, the invoice and both payments went to JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC. The homeowner saw a truck marked Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling at the property, and the son's texts about the job relayed what “dad says.” Google's listing for Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling uses the son's street address. Before you pay anyone, get the exact business name in writing.
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The son claimed a well drilling license. His own permit is inactive.
Two days before taking a $3,700 deposit in May 2024, the son texted that the state paperwork was “part of our well drilling license number.” Missouri DNR lists one well permit in his name, Jesse Silas Yoakum, number 004143, and it is inactive. It lists none for the LLC. The active permit, 002231, belongs to his father's business, and it is the number painted on the father's trucks.
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Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling is not a registered company.
It is a name the father does business under. Missouri requires that kind of name to be registered with the Secretary of State. Jesse Alan Yoakum registered it twice, and the last registration expired in 2017. His DNR permit is still issued under it.
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The father's business is in court too.
In 2025 a customer, George McCorkell, sued Jesse Alan Yoakum doing business as Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling, alleging fraudulent inducement and breach of contract over a well drilled in 2022. The son and his LLC are named in the same suit. The father's insurer then sued to avoid covering the claim. Neither case had been decided as of July 27, 2026.
In the court’s own words
“Defendants’ representations to Plaintiffs … were false, made knowinglyby Defendants, and constitute deception, fraud, false pretense, false promise, and misrepresentation…”JUDGMENT OF DEFAULT, ¶¶ 18–19
Frank Comer and Robin Comer v. JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC and Jesse Yoakum
Case No. 25CY-CV04306 · Circuit Court of Clay County, Missouri, Division II · Entered June 12, 2025
This was a default judgment. The defendants were served and did not respond, and the court made these findings after hearing the plaintiffs’ evidence.
The case files
Seven Missouri cases, and which business each one names
Each one has a case number you can look up on Missouri Case.net. Each card shows whether a judge ruled or it is still an allegation, and which business the filing names.
Names JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son)
A court found the statements made to this couple were false and made knowingly.
A Clay County homeowner couple contracted with the defendants in March 2023 to install a 119-gallon pressure tank for $1,650.00, and again in August 2024 to install a larger pump for $3,750.00. The court found the work was substandard and not performed in a workmanlike manner, that the installed tank burst and flooded the basement, and that the defendants’ representations were knowingly false. This is the only matter in this record that has reached a final money judgment.
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Names “Jesse Yoakum” only, could be either
The earliest judgment on this list is from 2022, and it has not been paid either.
A rent-to-own trailer company obtained a judgment against Jesse Yoakum in Cass County in March 2022. This site holds only the Case.net judgment record, not the underlying petition, so it makes no claim about what the dispute was about. What the record does establish is the date, the amount, that it was entered by default, and that it has never been satisfied. It is the earliest of three unpaid judgments documented here.
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Names JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son)
The largest judgment is $17,544.19, accruing 9% interest since March 2023.
EquipmentShare.com Inc., a construction equipment company, obtained judgment in Boone County against both the excavation LLC and Jesse Yoakum personally. This site holds the Case.net judgment record but not the underlying petition, so it makes no claim about the nature of the dispute. Unlike three of the other judgments here, the record does not state that this one was entered by default. What it does establish is the amount, the date, the 9% interest, and that more than three years later nothing has been paid.
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Names Father and son, named separately
A customer sued father and son on eight counts, including fraudulent inducement, over a well drilled 205 feet deep.
A Newton County, Missouri resident sued all three Yoakum defendants in Cass County. The petition pleads eight counts: four against the father's business, Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling, and four against the son's LLC and Jesse Yoakum, Jr. They include the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act, fraudulent inducement to contract, and unjust enrichment. The petition states that the defendants were engaged in the business of drilling water and ground source wells in both Missouri and Kansas. As of the most recent filing obtained for this site, the plaintiff had moved for an interlocutory order of default. No ruling on that motion has been obtained.
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Names JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son)
$6,450 paid up front. Seventeen months of promises. One failed attempt at the work.
A Grandview, Missouri homeowner hired JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC to plug an abandoned oil and gas well and paid $6,450 in two installments, in May and July 2024. Before the deposit, the son texted that the state paperwork was “part of our well drilling license number.” The homeowner saw a truck marked Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling at the property. Over the next seventeen months essentially no work was done. Judgment was entered against all three defendants on December 2, 2025.
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Names Father and son, named separately
His own insurance company went to court to argue it owes him nothing.
Jesse Alan Yoakum and Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling submitted the McCorkell lawsuit to their insurance carrier seeking a defense. The carrier responded by filing its own lawsuit asking a Missouri court to rule that it owes nothing. The policy identified in the petition, number BPK0000039-04, ran from August 21, 2022 to August 21, 2023. This action is pending and the court has not ruled.
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Names “Jesse Yoakum” only, could be either
His brother says he signed a settlement in front of a mediator, then refused to sign the final agreement.
A civil dispute between two brothers over real property and mineral rights. It is included here for one narrow reason: it is a public court record in which a party alleges the same sequence the consumer cases describe: an agreement reached, signed, and then not honored. Matthew Yoakum is the plaintiff here. He is the one who signed the settlement and went to court to enforce it. He runs a separate business, holds his own Kansas licence, and nothing anywhere on this site is about him. Every statement on this page is an unproven allegation from a filed motion.
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Since 1999
Equipment companies and the State of Missouri have sued these businesses for twenty years.
Caterpillar Financial, United Rentals, Sunstate, BlueLine and Dean Machinery all went to court to get paid, and the State of Missouri did three times. Six of the equipment claims name the son’s LLC. The three State of Missouri matters name the father’s side, most recently in 2011.
Equipment lessors and suppliers
Rental and finance companies that put machines on these job sites and went to court to get paid. Six of these eight name the son's LLC. The 2012 Dean Machinery suit names the father. One names only “Jesse Yoakum.”
| Who sued | Named | County | Filed | Case No. | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dean Machinery Company | Jesse Alan YoakumJesse Yoakum Well Drilling (the father) | Cass | July 12, 2012 | 12CA-CV02218 | Breach of contract |
| Daniel Talbert | J S Yoakum Excavation et al.JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son) | Daviess | January 3, 2013 | 13DV-CC00002 | Suit on account |
| Daniel D. Talbert | JS Yoakum ExcavationJS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son) | Cass | May 13, 2013 | 13CA-CV01682 | Suit on account |
| Caterpillar Financial | JS Yoakum Excavation et al.JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son) | Cass | February 9, 2015 | 15CA-AC00287 | Contract |
| Sunstate Equipment Co. | JS Yoakum ExcavationJS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son) | Cass | July 17, 2015 | 15CA-AC01085 | Suit on account |
| BlueLine Rental LLC | JS Yoakum Excavation et al.JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son) | Cass | February 1, 2018 | 18CA-CC00030 | Breach of contract |
| United Rentals | J S Yoakum Excavation & Construction et al.JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC (the son) | Cass | May 1, 2018 | 18CA-CC00087 | Breach of contract. An out-of-state judgment was filed here on October 29, 2018 to be enforced in Missouri. |
| Gary L. Eslinger | Jesse Yoakum“Jesse Yoakum” only, could be either | Buchanan | January 10, 2012 | 12BU-CV00151 | Small claims over $100 |
The State of Missouri
The Division of Employment Security twice and the Department of Revenue once. A transcript judgment turns a state assessment into an enforceable court judgment. All three name the father or his business.
| Who sued | Named | County | Filed | Case No. | Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division of Employment Security | Jesse Alan YoakumJesse Yoakum Well Drilling (the father) | Jackson | November 4, 1999 | 99CV224159 | Transcript judgment |
| Division of Employment Security | Jesse Alan YoakumJesse Yoakum Well Drilling (the father) | Jackson | November 20, 2000 | 00MC203336 | Transcript judgment |
| Missouri Department of Revenue | Jesse Yoakum Well DrillingJesse Yoakum Well Drilling (the father) | Cass | August 17, 2011 | 11CA-MC01454 | Certificate of lien for taxes |
Where this list comes from
Missouri’s public court index: case number, date, parties and case type. The underlying petitions are not posted here. The two Talbert entries, filed five months apart, may be the same claim filed twice.
The father’s website, checked
What jesseyoakumwelldrilling.com says, and what the record shows.
Quotes from the Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling website, preserved in the Internet Archive. Each one is checked only against cases that name that business.
“We are fully insured and hold licenses in Kansas and Missouri.”jesseyoakumwelldrilling.com/water-wells.php
Both are held by Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling. The Missouri permit is active. The Kansas licence is on the state roster through June 30, 2026.
On September 12, 2025 his insurer asked a court to declare that it does not have to defend or cover Jesse Alan Yoakum or Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling in the McCorkell suit. The court had not ruled as of July 27, 2026.
“Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling prides itself on our professionalism and workmanship.”jesseyoakumwelldrilling.com
Counts I to IV of this petition are against Jesse Alan Yoakum doing business as Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling. They allege the well was drilled too deep and produces salty, contaminated water. The plaintiff moved for default in August 2025. No ruling has been obtained.
The state register records the McCorkell well at 205 feet, completed August 23, 2022, driller Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling, licence 595. That matches the depth and date in the petition.
“All certification paperwork is completed by Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling and is included in the cost of the water well.”jesseyoakumwelldrilling.com/water-wells.php
Missouri requires well certification and plugging records to be filed with DNR within 60 days. If you paid anyone for well work, call Missouri DNR at 573-368-2165 and ask whether the record for your property was filed. The answer is free.
Look it up
Every record here is in a public database you can search.
The father’s permit numbers below are also painted on the door of his service truck.
| Record | Value | What it shows |
|---|---|---|
| USDOT Number | 1187767 | The federal SAFER record lists legal name JESSE ALAN YOAKUM, doing business as JESSE YOAKUM WELL DRILLING, Cleveland, Missouri. Status active, as of July 23, 2026. It shows Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling is the father's own business, separate from the son's LLC. |
| Missouri DNR well driller permit | 002231, ACTIVE | Missouri's well contractor permit search lists permit 002231, holder Jesse Yoakum, business Jesse Yoakum Well Drilling, status active. It is the number painted on the father's service truck. Checked September 29, 2026. |
| Missouri DNR well permit, the son | 004143, INACTIVE | The same permit search lists permit 004143, holder Jesse Silas Yoakum, status inactive. Its phone number matches the one on JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC's 2024 invoice. No permit is listed for the LLC itself. Checked September 29, 2026. |
| Kansas water well contractor licence | 595 | The Kansas roster of licensed water well contractors for July 1, 2025 through June 30, 2026 lists licence 595, Jesse Yoakum Well Drlg., Cleveland, MO. A newer roster had not been published as of September 29, 2026. |
| Missouri fictitious name registration | NOT REGISTERED since 2017 | Missouri requires anyone doing business under a name other than their own to register it (§ 417.200 RSMo). Jesse Alan Yoakum registered JESSE YOAKUM WELL DRILLING twice. The registrations expired August 28, 2014 and June 11, 2017, and neither was renewed. The business still trades under the name, and the DNR permit is issued under it. Checked July 2026. |
| Missouri business registration | JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC | Charter LC0819378, formed May 28, 2007. Active and in good standing as of July 2026. |
| Bankruptcy | NONE FOUND | A nationwide search of federal bankruptcy dockets found no filing by Jesse Yoakum, Brook Yoakum, or any Yoakum excavation, drilling or construction business. None of these judgments has been discharged. They are still enforceable. |
Did this happen to you?
If you paid JS Yoakum Excavation and Construction, LLC for work that was never done, report it, even if it was years ago. Regulators act on patterns, and every complaint adds to one. Check the business name on your paperwork first. It decides where the complaint goes.