COASTAL OIL & GAS CORP. v. ROBERTS

No. 13-98-652-CV.

28 S.W.3d 759 (2000)

COASTAL OIL & GAS CORPORATION and Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P., Appellants, v. Barry Coates ROBERTS and George L. Stieren, Trustees of the Coates Energy Trust, and Coates Energy Interests, Ltd., Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, Corpus Christi.

Rehearing Overruled October 5, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel C. Bitting, Elizabeth N. Miller, Scott, Douglass & McConnico, Austin, Gregory T. Perkes, Cohn, Casstevens and Bircher, Corpus Christi, Eduardo R. Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Colvin & Chaney, Brownsville, Jose E. Chapa, Jr., Yzaguirre & Chapa, McAllen, Joseph Cohn, Jr., Wood, Burney, Cohn & Viles, Corpus Christi, for Appellants.

Francisco J. Rodriguez, Rodriguez, Pruneda, Tovar, Enriquez & Calvillo, McAllen, Luke C. Kellogg, San Antonio, Frank E. Weathered, Dunn & Weathered, Corpus Christi, Jacqueline L. Weaver, University of Houston Law Center, Houston, for Appellees.

Before Justices DORSEY, CHAVEZ, and RODRIGUEZ.


OPINION

Opinion by Justice RODRIGUEZ.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment terminating a gas lease for failure to pay royalties. By three issues, Coastal Oil & Gas Corporation and Coastal Oil & Gas USA, L.P. (Coastal)1 contends the trial court erred in granting summary judgment and terminating the lease because there were fact issues as to whether it wrongfully or unreasonably withheld royalties after sufficient...

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