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SPRINGER RANCH, LTD. v. JONES

No. 04-12-00554-CV.

421 S.W.3d 273 (2013)

SPRINGER RANCH, LTD., Appellant, v. O.F. JONES III, Margaret Matthews, Ethel Matthews Rust, Ethel Matthews Rust as the Guardian/Trustee for Elizabeth Matthews, and Rosalie Matthews Sullivan, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, San Antonio.

December 20, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark C. Harwell, Cotham , Harwell & O'Conor, P.C., Houston, TX, for Appellant.

O.F. Jones , Law Offices of O.F. Jones, III, Victoria, TX, David E. Jackson , John Matthew Sjoberg , Jackson, Sjoberg, McCarthy & Townsend, L.L.P., Austin, TX, for Appellee.

Sitting: KAREN ANGELINI, Justice, PATRICIA O. ALVAREZ, Justice, LUZ ELENA D. CHAPA, Justice.

OPINION

Opinion by: LUZ ELENA D. CHAPA, Justice.

In this appeal from a declaratory judgment, we must construe a 1993 contract to determine the allocation of royalties from a horizontal well that begins on the property of the appellant, Springer Ranch, Ltd., but ends under the property of Rosalie Matthews Sullivan, one of the appellees. Our construction will also govern the allocation of royalties to future horizontal wells covered by the contract. The trial...

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