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HOUSTON PIPE LINE CO. v. OXY PETROLEUM, INC.

No. 1645.

597 S.W.2d 57 (1980)

HOUSTON PIPE LINE COMPANY, Appellant, v. OXY PETROLEUM, INC., Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Denied April 17, 1980.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William F. Ikard, J. Clifford Gunter, III, Michael Kuhn, Bracewell & Patterson, Houston, for appellant.

Shannon H. Ratliff, McGinnis, Lochridge & Kilgore, Austin, James F. Buchanan, Kleberg, Dyer, Redford & Weil, Corpus Christi, for appellee.

OPINION

BISSETT, Justice.

This venue case involves an appeal by Houston Pipe Line Company [HPL] from an order of the District Court of Nueces County overruling its plea of privilege to be sued in Harris County. The controversy was initiated by Oxy Petroleum, Inc., [Oxy], which brought suit against HPL in Nueces County for the recovery of $4,266,501.00, plus prejudgment interest and attorney's fees. The suit arose out of HPL's alleged breach of a "pay for...

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