Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Chieftain Expl. Co. v. Gastar Expl. Inc., No. 10-15-00037-CV, 2017 WL 3860357 (Tex. App.—Waco Aug. 30, 2017, no pet. h.), rule 53.7(f) motion granted (Dec. 20, 2017) (mem. op.) held that […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Apache Deepwater, LLC v. Double Eagle Development, LLC, No. 08-16-00038-CV, 2017 WL 3614298 (Tex. App.—El Paso Aug. 23, 2017, pet. filed) construed a retained acreage clause to operate as of the […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Spellman v Love, 534 S.W.3d 685 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi 2017, pet. denied) held that there could be no recovery for money had and received when the owner of a term non-participating […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Hardin-Simmons Univ. v. Hunt Cimarron Ltd. P’ship, No. 07-15-00303-CV, 2017 WL 3197920 (Tex. App.—Amarillo July 25, 2017, pet. filed) (mem. op.) held that the reworking clause of a lease extended the […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Mzyk v. Murphy Exploration & Production Company-USA, No. 04-15-00677-CV, 2017 WL 2797479 (Tex. App.—San Antonio June 28, 2017, no pet.)(mem. op.) held that the reasonably prudent operator standard in an offset […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Samson Expl., LLC v. T. S. Reed Props., Inc., 521 S.W.3d 766 (Tex. 2017) held that an operator who formed two overlapping pooled units was obligated to pay royalties to all […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Boothe v. Green, 534 S.W.3d 93 (Tex. App.—Corpus Christi 2017, pet. filed), held that a devise of real property was adeemed only in part because the testatrix still possessed a part […]
