DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC. v. PAGE PETROLEUM, INC.

No. 10-89-147-CV.

821 S.W.2d 359 (1991)

DRESSER INDUSTRIES, INC. and Houston Fishing Tools Company, Appellants, v. PAGE PETROLEUM, INC., et al., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Waco.

Rehearing Denied January 15, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kent C. Sullivan, McFall & Sartwelle, P.C., Jennifer Bruch Hogan, Pulbright & Jaworski, Houston, for appellants.

Jess Hall, Jr., Liddell, Sapp, Zivley, Hill & Laboon, Houston, J.G. Adami, Jr., Perkins, Oden, Warburton, McNeill, Adami & Paisley, P.C., Alice, for appellees.

Before THOMAS, CJ., and CUMMINGS and VANCE, JJ.


OPINION

THOMAS, Chief Justice.

Page Petroleum, Inc. and the other owners of a lease sued Dresser Industries, Inc. and Houston Fishing Tools Company for negligently damaging an uncompleted oil well, which resulted in the well being abandoned and the drilling of a replacement well. The jury found that Page1, Dresser, and Houston were negligent, attributed 50% of the negligence to Page, 40% to Houston and 10% to Dresser. Dresser...

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