Chumchal v. Natural Gas Pipeline Company of America

GREEN, Chief Justice.

This is a suit for damages to land filed by-appellant, the landowner, against appellees National Gas Pipe Line Company of America and R. L. Pivonka, superintendent of the company’s plant in Wharton County at the time in question. Appellees filed a motion for summary judgment, to which were attached extracts from sworn depositions of Pivonka, Mrs. Frances Chumchal and George Krenek, appellant’s lessee when the alleged cause of action occurred. The motion was granted, and appellant appeals.

Before proceeding further into the facts, we shall dispose of appellant’s contention…