Oil Giant Asks Texas Justices to Reject County's Demand for Taxes – Courthouse News Service
An oil pumpjack is pictured near Imperial, Texas. (Courthouse News photo/Travis Bubenik) (CN) — Kinder Morgan asked the Texas Supreme Court on Thursday to dismiss a lawsuit brought by a West Texas county that claims it owes more than $283 million in taxes on its oil and gas holdings in the county. The Houston-based company is the largest taxpayer in Scurry County, population 19,000, where in the county seat of Snyder some of the largest employers besides Kinder are Walmart and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice, which has a prison four miles west of town. After Kinder Morgan proteste...