Legal Opinion
Chesapeake Operating, Inc. v. Nabors Drilling USA, Inc.
Texas Court of Appeals, 14th District (Houston)
Decided November 21, 2002No. 14-00-00173-CVPublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MAJORITY OPINION
SCOTT BRISTER, Chief Justice.
Two personal injury claims emerged from a drilling site in a Louisiana wood. Both followed the strangely well-worn path to trial courts in Texas. There, the tangle of Texas and Louisiana oilfield indemnity statutes led two very experienced trial judges to split results, and produced a similar split in this Court on both appeals. With the help of a specially appointed eleventh justice, we find Texas law has the better claim, and follow it for the reasons described below.
The applicable facts are undisputed. In December 1996, Chesapeake Operating,…
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