HUTCHINGS v. CHEVRON U.S.A., INC.

No. 08-91-00404-CV.

862 S.W.2d 752 (1993)

Robert K. HUTCHINGS, et al., Appellants, v. CHEVRON U.S.A., INC., Appellee.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

Rehearing Denied October 6, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew M. Taylor, Bracewell & Patterson, Austin, William Key Wilde, Bracewell & Patterson, Van E. McFarland, Van McFarland & Associates, Houston, William B. Browder, Jr., Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Midland, for appellants.

Hal Upchurch, Monahans, J. Knox Moore, Brady, Wm. Randall Lundy, Jr., Texaco Inc., Denver, CO, C.B. McDaniel, Hondo Oil & Gas Co., Roswell, NM, Charles Tighe, Julia E. Vaughan, Cotton, Bledsoe, Tighe & Dawson, Midland, Richard Henderson, Victoria, for appellee.

Before KOEHLER, BARAJAS and LARSEN, JJ.


OPINION

KOEHLER, Justice.

This is an oil and gas case in which Chevron U.S.A. sought a declaratory judgment defining its royalty obligations under a long term lease. The royalty owners, represented here by two groups (the Abel Appellants and Mobil-OXY), counterclaimed for underpaid royalties. By partial summary judgment, the trial court interpreted the casinghead gas royalty clause of the lease to provide for a 1/8 of four cents per mcf royalty on...

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