Legal Opinion
Dresser Industries, Inc. v. Snell
Texas Court of Appeals, 8th District (El Paso)
Decided March 3, 1993No. 08-91-00354-CVPublishedCited by 87 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
LARSEN, Justice.
This is an interlocutory appeal from an order certifying a class action under Tex. R.Civ.P. 42. The plaintiffs are owners of royalty or overriding royalty interests in one or more of 523 West Texas oil wells. We affirm the order certifying the case as a class action.
FACTS
This suit involves a number of oil wells operated by Parker & Parsley Petroleum Company. Some of the wells were not as productive as the company wished, so it contracted with Appellant Dresser Industries, Inc., a well servicing company, along with its subsidiaries and successor companies, (collectively…
2Cases cited23 opinions
- Downer v. Aquamarine Operators, Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 1985
- Craddock v. Sunshine Bus Lines, Inc.Texas Supreme Court · 1939
- East Texas Motor Freight System, Inc. v. RodriguezSupreme Court of the United States · 1977
- Blackie v. BarrackCourt of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit · 1975
- Hunt v. BassTexas Supreme Court · 1984
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3Cited by87 opinions
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- Central Power & Light Co. v. City of San Juan, Texas Court of Appeals, 13th District1998
- Forsyth v. Lake LBJ Investment Corp., Texas Court of Appeals, 3rd District (Austin)1995
- Employers Casualty Co. v. Texas Ass'n of School Boards Workers' Compensation Self-Insurance FundCourt of Appeals of Texas · 1994
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