Haring v. Bay Rock Corp.

OPINION

CARR, Justice.

Appellant, St. Paul Insurance Company brought this suit, in the name of Louis H. Haring, Jr., to recover from Bay Rock Corporation all or part of $300,000 that St. Paul had paid to satisfy a judgment against Haring in favor of the family of Delphine Wallek.

Louis H. Haring, Jr., who had a policy of liability insurance with St. Paul, owned a mineral lease in Bee County, Texas. Haring contracted for Bay Rock to operate, maintain and service wells producing on the lease. Delphine Wallek conducted a farming operating on the surface estate. In 1977, Mr. Wallek was killed in an…