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Coastal Oil & Gas Corp. v. Garza Energy Trust

Supreme Court of Texas

268 S.W.3d 1 (Tex. 2008)

TortsProperty
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Salinas (plaintiff) leased his minerals under one tract (Share 13) to Coastal Oil & Gas (defendant), which also owned the adjoining tract (Share 12) and drilled and hydraulically fractured a well there in a way that drained gas from beneath Salinas's Share 13. Salinas sued for trespass, seeking the value of the drained gas as damages; the trial court and court of appeals ruled for Salinas, and Coastal appealed.

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Whether subsurface hydraulic fracturing that extends into another person's property is a trespass for which the value of gas drained as a result may be recovered as damages.

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