Legal Opinion
Victory Energy Corporation, Smart Gas, LLC, and HCP Investments, LLC v. Oz Gas Corporation
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided September 17, 2014No. 08-12-00248-CVPublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
YVONNE T. RODRIGUEZ, Justice
Appellants — three business associations that were purportedly assigned oil and gas leases on certain land in Crockett County — appeal the trial court’s partial grant of summary judgment and merits verdict naming Appellee Oz Gas Corporation as the true leaseholder of the disputed land and assessing damages against Appellants for bad faith trespass. We affirm.
BACKGROUND
Factual History
The Adams-Baggetl Ranch Leases
In 1974, Emma Lou Phillips Adams, Camille Adams Jones, and Jane Adams Gar-litz (collectively, “the Adams Family”) executed five oil and gas leases…
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