Morgan Stanley & Co. v. Texas Oil Co.

joined by PHILLIPS, Chief Justice GONZALEZ, CORNYN, SPECTOR, OWEN, BAKER and ABBOTT, Justices.

In Holloway v. Skinner, 898 S.W.2d 793, 798 (Tex.1995), we held that for an agent to be liable for tortious interference with its principal’s contract, one prerequisite is that a “plaintiff must prove that the [agent] acted willfully or intentionally to serve the [agent’s] personal interests at the expense of the [principal’s].” In the case now before us we apply the same rule in a similar context— tortious interference with a prospective contractual relationship. Here, as in Holloway, we conclude…