SCHLUMBERGER WELL SUR. CORP. v. NORTEX OIL & G. CORP.

No. B-443.

435 S.W.2d 854 (1968)

SCHLUMBERGER WELL SURVEYING CORPORATION, Petitioner, v. NORTEX OIL AND GAS CORPORATION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Rehearing Denied January 29, 1969.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Baker, Botts, Shepherd & Coates, Joseph C. Hutcheson, III and John F. Heard, Houston, for petitioner.

Fritz Lyne and Erich F. Klein, Jr., Dallas, Ralph Balasco, Houston, for respondent.


CALVERT, Chief Justice.

Nortex Oil & Gas Corporation sued Schlumberger Well Surveying Corporation for damages alleged to have been sustained as a result of a fraud practiced upon it by the sellers of certain oil and gas leasehold estates. Schlumberger was not one of the sellers of the leasehold estates and owned no interest therein; its liability was asserted on the ground that it had participated in a conspiracy to commit certain unlawful acts which made the...

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