Legal Opinion
Hou-Tex, Inc. v. Landmark Graphics
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided July 13, 2000No. 14-98-00620-CVPublishedCited by 137 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JOE L. DRAUGHN, Justice (Assigned).
This is an appeal from a summary judgment awarded to Landmark Graphics, the owner and licensor of a software program called SeisVision. Appellee Hou-Tex, Inc. is an oil and gas company who drilled a dry hole after its geological contractor helped choose the drilling site by using the SeisVision software. Hou-Tex appeals in seven points of error, contending that (1) Landmark Graphics owed it a legal duty; (2) the geological contractor learned about a “bug” in SeisVision only after the dry well had been drilled and abandoned; (3) a fact issue exists…
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