What to do with a Texas pipeline easement that doesn’t define the width? In Premcor Pipeline Company v. Wingate they fought about it.
The dispute began when Premcor wanted to run a pig through one of two pipelines on Premcor’s 1954 pipeline easement. In doing so it would need access across the property of Wingate
Co-author Trenton PattersonCopano Energy, LLC v. Stanley Bujnoch, Life Estate, et al. asked whether an enforceable easement had been established by email. The trial court and court of appeal said yes (here is our report), holding in favor of landowner the Bujnochs. The Texas Supreme Court reversed.
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Email is the way we communicate these days. Whether emails create a contract is important if you’re thinking nothing short of scribblings on a piece of old parchment could ever bind anybody or, to the contrary, your goal is to establish an enforceable agreement. Before hitting “send”, consider Bujnoch v. Copano. Questions of fact precluded a summary judgment denying an agreement. A jury will decide the question.
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“Money isn’t everything, Jett.” Leslie Benedict.
“Not when you’ve got it.” Jett Rink
The ageless struggle between the oil man and the rancher continues. The Texas Supreme Court declined to review LaSalle Pipeline, LP v. Donnell Lands, L.P., (the link is the court of appeals opinion) a pipeline condemnation suit involving