Legal Opinion
El Paso Natural Gas Co. v. Strayhorn
Texas Court of Appeals, 6th District (Texarkana)
Decided December 19, 2006No. 06-05-00059-CVPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
Chief Justice MORRISS.
El Paso Natural Gas Company (the Company) and the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts battle over the Company’s franchise tax liability for the years 1989 through 1991, in a protracted conflict with possibly millions of dollars at stake. The battlefield is littered with accounting and procedural details and is mined with obscure and often unclear statutes and agency rules.
The Company and the Comptroller filed competing motions for summary judgment in the trial court. Both sides partially won and partially lost in those summary judgment proceedings. Both…
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- De Gonzalez v. Mission American Insurance Co.Texas Supreme Court · 1990
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