Schroeder v. Texas Co.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Parker, J.:

Plaintiff brought this action against thirteen different defendants to recover damages both actual and punitive, alleged to have been sustained by him as a result of their action in permitting salt water and other mineralized liquids to escape and flow upon his lands from certain of their oil and gas operating leaseholds.

Issues having been joined, by pleadings which are not in controversy and hence require no further reference, the cause was tried by a jury. At the close of plaintiff’s case each and all of the de fendants demurred to his…