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RAILROAD COM'N v. GULF ENERGY EXPLORATION

No. 14-0534.

482 S.W.3d 559 (2016)

RAILROAD COMMISSION OF TEXAS, Petitioner, v. GULF ENERGY EXPLORATION CORPORATION, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: January 29, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Roberts , Roberts, Roberts, Odefey & Witte, LLP, Port Lavaca , Kenneth R. Wynne , David Edwards Wynne , Wynne & Wynne LLP, Houston, for Respondent.

Joseph David `Jody' Hughes , Assistant Solicitor General, Jonathan F. Mitchell , Solicitor General, J.R. Schneider Jr. , Assistant Attorney General, Gaston M. Broyles Jr. , Assistant Attorney General, Daniel T. Hodge , First Asst. Attorney General, Gregory W. Abbott , Attorney General, Charles Kenneth Eldred , Financial & Tax Litigation Division, Office of the Attorney General, Austin, for Petitioner.

After agreeing with an oil-and-gas lessee to postpone plugging several abandoned offshore wells, the Railroad Commission of Texas mistakenly plugged one of those wells. The lessee sued the Commission with legislative permission and obtained a favorable jury verdict on the lessee's negligence and...

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