Court Opinion

ID: 9771126
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 16:33:16.541201+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:31:25.623030
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CORNELIUS, Chief Justice,
concurring on Motion for Rehearing.
I do not believe the court erred in refusing Geo Viking’s requested instruction. If Geo Viking is responsible for depriving Tex-Lee of production, it cannot defend on the basis that Tex-Lee might have secured some of that production by trespassing on someone else’s land. That is a matter between Tex-Lee and the other landowner. It is against public policy for a wrongdoer to escape liability for his wrongful act by showing that the injured party had an imperfect or defeasible title to the property which was taken or damaged.