2010 Tennessee Code
Title 60 - Oil And Gas
Chapter 1 - Production of Oil and Gas
Part 6 - Oil and Gas Surface Owners Compensation
60-1-608 - Common law remedies preserved.

60-1-608. Common law remedies preserved.

Nothing in this part shall be construed to diminish in any way the common law remedies, including damages, of a surface owner or any other person against the oil and gas developer for the unreasonable, negligent or otherwise wrongful exercise of the contractual right, whether express or implied, to use the surface of the land for the benefit of the developer's interest.

[Acts 1984, ch. 863, § 2.]  

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