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LOCKWOOD CORP. v. SPENCER

No. 9277.

613 S.W.2d 369 (1981)

LOCKWOOD CORPORATION, Appellant, v. Roy Lee SPENCER, Appellee.

Court of Civil Appeals of Texas, Amarillo.

Rehearing Denied March 31, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Crenshaw, Dupree & Milam, J. Orville Smith, Lubbock, for appellant.

Bob Huff and Associates, Inc., Robert Teel and Harley Huff, Lubbock, for appellee.

REYNOLDS, Chief Justice.

Based on a tort theory of strict liability for crop damage due to lack of irrigation water caused by a defective irrigation system, Roy Lee Spencer recovered a money judgment against Lockwood Corporation. Since Spencer's crop damage was an economic loss which may not be recovered in a strict liability tort action, we reverse and render.

Spencer was a tenant farming row-irrigated land owned by Gerald Elkins. Elkins purchased a center...

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