McCOY v. POLVADO

No. 8996.

583 S.W.2d 439 (1979)

J. Roy McCOY, Appellant, v. E. L. POLVADO, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

April 30, 1979.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Phelan, Phelan, Moreland & Phelan, Levelland, for appellant.

James K. Walker, Morton, for appellee.


REYNOLDS, Justice.

The sole question presented is the propriety of a $1,750 judgment for temporary damages resulting to land from the drilling of a gas well. Tested by the applicable measure of damages, the evidence is factually insufficient to support the amount of damages decreed. Reversed and remanded.

J. Roy McCoy became the assignee of a mineral lease given by E. L. Polvado and his wife covering their 241.8 acre tract of land in Cochran County. A drilling...

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