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FRENCH v. CHEVRON U.S.A. INC.

No. 94-0377.

896 S.W.2d 795 (1995)

Marcia Fuller FRENCH, Trustee of the W.M. Fuller Management Trust, Petitioner, v. CHEVRON U.S.A. INC., Meridian Oil Inc., Enserch Exploration, Inc., Scurlock Permian Corporation, Phibro Energy USA, Inc., Rosalie E.S. Calvert Ray, Individually and as Life Tenant, Corner/Fain Oil Trust, David Randolph Ray, Jr., George Calvert Ray and B. Michael Cummings, Independent Executor of the Estate of Edna Louise Newson, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Decided March 30, 1995.

Rehearing Overruled May 11, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samuel A. Denny, Thomas H. Law, H. Allen Pennington, Jr., and Andrew C. Rector, Fort Worth, for petitioner.

G. Alan Kramer, Houston, W.B. Browder, Jr., Richard E. Booth, Midland, Thomas M. Callan, Dallas, Letitia H. White, Houston, John A. "Jad" Davis, Midland, T. Michael Wall, and Jeril R. Benedict, Houston, for respondents.

ON APPLICATION FOR WRIT OF ERROR TO THE COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE EIGHTH DISTRICT OF TEXAS

Justice ENOCH delivered the opinion of the Court, in which all Justices join.

The controversy in this case is over the size of an interest conveyed by a mineral deed. Grantee's successor-in-interest claims to own a royalty interest equal to the value of 1/656.17 of all oil and gas produced from the entire tract of land involved. Grantor's successors-in-interest contend...

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