# Geo Viking, Inc. v. Tex-Lee Operating Co.

> Court of Appeals of Texas · September 24, 1991 · 817 S.W.2d 357

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9771126

## Case

- **Full name:** GEO VIKING, INC., Appellant, v. TEX-LEE OPERATING COMPANY, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** September 24, 1991
- **Citations:** 817 S.W.2d 357; 1991 WL 188715
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Cornelius
- **Judges:** Cornelius, Bleil, Grant
- **Cited by:** 15 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9771126

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- holding evidence was sufficient to support award of future damages for improperly drilled well

## Opinion text

CORNELIUS, Chief Justice,
concurring on Motion for Rehearing.
I do not believe the court erred in refusing Geo Viking’s requested instruction. If Geo Viking is responsible for depriving Tex-Lee of production, it cannot defend on the basis that Tex-Lee might have secured some of that production by trespassing on someone else’s land. That is a matter between Tex-Lee and the other landowner. It is against public policy for a wrongdoer to escape liability for his wrongful act by showing that the injured party had an imperfect or defeasible title to the property which was taken or damaged.

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