TAR HEEL ENERGY CORP. v. MENKING

No. 1750.

621 S.W.2d 450 (1981)

TAR HEEL ENERGY CORPORATION, et al., Appellants, v. Melvin MENKING, et al., Appellees.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

August 20, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Denver E. Perkins, Perkins, Dreyer & Rather, Gonzales, Elizabeth Harris, Houston, Phillips Petroleum Co., for appellants.

Marion J. Borchers, Borchers & Taylor, New Braunfels, for appellees.


OPINION

NYE, Chief Justice.

Melvin C. Menking, Janice Menking, Shelby Baker and Beulah McGill (plaintiffs hereinafter) filed suit against Henry B. Kelsey, James P. S. Griffith, Fay W. Griffith, Phillips Petroleum Co., Tar Heel Energy Corporation, Geological Research Corporation and American Petrofina Company of Texas (defendants hereinafter) for damages for defendants' failure to drill an offset well under an oil, gas and mineral lease. Defendants answered...

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