Schlumberger Well Surveying Corp. v. Nortex Oil & Gas Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that party may not establish a vital fact by stacking one inference upon another
• holding that conspiracy may be proven through circumstantial evidence but burden of proof cannot be sustained through inference stacking
• holding that party may not establish a vital fact by stacking one inference upon another
• holding that party may not establish a vital fact by stacking one inference upon another
• recognizing that “a vital fact may not be established by piling inference upon inference”
• recognizing that “proof of a conspiracy may be, and usually must be made by circumstantial evidence,” but “vital facts may not be proved by unreasonable inference” or “by piling inference upon inference”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).