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Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co.

Is it still good law? What later courts have actually done to this case.

Overruled in part
Court
Supreme Court of Texas
Citation
538 S.W.2d 80
Decided
Confirmed treatments
1
Flagged citations read
55 of 55
Citing cases (total)
55
Treatment dates
1989
Overruled in part
A reviewed court has overruled part of this case’s holding. Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co. was overruled in part. In Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co., the Supreme Court of Texas placed the burden of proving justification for interference with a contract on the defendant, overruling Black Lake's contrary rule.
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The confirmed treatment is listed below. All 55 flagged citations have been read. Source note: The complete Republic National Bank of Dallas v. Northwest National Bank of Fort Worth opinion at source and the complete Howze v. Surety Corp. of America opinion at source cite Black Lake approvingly on prejudgment interest. Those citations are absent from the staged CourtListener text. The two Sterner signals describe one opinion and one treatment.

Every treatment on this page is written from the citing opinion itself, with a verbatim quote, never copied from a commercial citator. A citation flagged by our screen but not shown here was read and found not to weaken this case.

55 later cases cite Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co.; 55 of those citations sat close to treatment language and were flagged for reading, and all of them have been read. Citations that did not sit near treatment language were not flagged and were not read one by one, so a court that weakened this case without using any of that language would not appear here.

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Treatments

Overruled in part

  • The Supreme Court of Texas overruled Black Lake's rule placing the burden of disproving justification for interference with a contract on the plaintiff.

    Sterner v. Marathon Oil Co. · Supreme Court of Texas · filed

    To the extent that they are in conflict with this opinion, we overrule Sakowitz, 669 S.W.2d at 107, and Black Lake Pipe Line Co. v. Union Construction Co., 538 S.W.2d 80, 91 (Tex.1976), and disapprove of those decisions of the courts of appeals placing the burden upon the plaintiff.
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