Texas Gas Exploration Corp. v. Fluor Corp.

OPINION

BLEIL, Justice.

Texas Gas Exploration Corporation appeals from the trial court’s granting of a summary judgment against it. The primary issue is whether Texas Gas’ claims against Fluor were barred as a matter of law by the ten-year statute of limitations imposed by Tex.Civ.Prac. & Rem.Code Ann. §§ 16.008 and 16.009 (Vernon 1986). 1

Texas Gas asserts that retroactive application of these provisions violates its constitutional rights under Article I, §§ 13, 16 and 19 of the Texas Constitution, as well as the equal protection clause of the fourteenth amendment of the United States…