SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY v. ADAMS

No. 6635.

392 S.W.2d 721 (1965)

SINCLAIR OIL & GAS COMPANY, Appellant, v. J. A. ADAMS et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Beaumont.

Rehearing Denied June 30, 1965.

Second Motion for Rehearing Denied July 21, 1965.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Orgain, Bell & Tucker, Keith, Mehaffy & Weber, Beaumont, for appellant.

Clark, Thomas, Harris, Denius & Winters, Austin, Mary Joe Carroll, Austin, of counsel, Ward W. Markley, Glenn Faver, Jasper, for appellees.


HIGHTOWER, Chief Justice.

Two separate suits, one by H. W. Mattox and the other by J. A. Adams and D. M. Henderson, were brought against Sinclair Oil & Gas Company and L. V. Musgrove seeking to recover damages for destruction of and injury to said plaintiffs' timber and pine seedling trees as a result of a fire which allegedly spread from a tract upon which Sinclair was operating a gas well to lands owned by the plaintiffs. Sinclair cross-acted against Musgrove...

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