Court Opinion

ID: 9774586
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 18:25:26.158055+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:10.925664
License: Public Domain

On Motion for Rehearing.
Plaintiff protests the statement in our opinion that his suit was not for damages to realty. In the third count of his pleading, he prays for damages because defendant failed to drill what is known as the McCollough tract in Calhoun County. He pleads that defendant orally agreed to drill the tract prior to June 29, 1960, and that because defendant failed to drill, he, the plaintiff, lost the lease and is damaged. This is the basis for plaintiff’s claim that his suit is for damages to land under Ex*277ception 14, Article 1995, Vernon’s Tex. Civ.Stats. In our opinion this is not a suit for the recovery of damages to land. It is a suit for damages for breach of contract. Milburn v. Minette, Tex.Civ.App., 278 S.W.2d 269; Lockett v. Shaw, Tex.Civ.App., 106 S.W.2d 768. Accord, Brown v. Gulf Television Company, 157 Tex. 607, 306 S.W.2d 706.
The motion for rehearing is overruled.