Legal Opinion
Advent Trust Co. v. Hyder
Texas Court of Appeals, 4th District (San Antonio)
Decided December 27, 1999No. 04-98-00315-CVPublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
Opinion by
TOM RICKHOFF, Justice.
A, group of working interest owners in certain oil and gas leases sued the estate of a former operator of the leases, seeking to recover losses they incurred in prior litigation involving a farmout agreement. The jury returned a verdict in favor of the working interest owners for $4,261,000 in actual damages and $20,000 in punitive damages. We conclude that the limitations period for this suit commenced when the working interest owners were served with the petition in the prior litigation. Because this suit was commenced more than four years after that…
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