Exxon Corp. v. West Texas Gathering Co.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that admitting an expert’s revised calculation less than thirty days before trial was permissible under former Tex. R. Civ. P. 166b
• stating that where contract is unambiguous, courts give effect to intention of parties as expressed in writing and interpret contract as matter of law
• explaining that cont ract ambiguities are fact questions to be submitted to a jury
• stating trial court = s determination as to ambiguity is implicit in its decision to submit extent of defendants = liability to jury which required jury to determine on basis of extrinsic evidence which interpretation parties intended
• rules of procedure do not prevent experts from refining calculations and perfecting reports through the time of trial
• “Our rules do not prevent experts from refining calculations and perfecting reports through the time of trial.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).