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BNSF RY. CO. v. CHEVRON MIDCONTINENT, L.P.

No. 08-16-00119-CV.

528 S.W.3d 124 (2017)

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY, Appellant, v. CHEVRON MIDCONTINENT, L.P.; Robert Benson Jones; Rhett D. Bentley; March Ranch, L.L.C.; Ponderosa Royalty, L.L.C.; Marquerite Cox Stell Bartlett; Barbara Stell Prunity; William H. Goode IV; Andrew A. Goode; Susan L. Smith; Gayle Francis Whipkey Nelson; Amy Smallwood; Mary Smallwood; Caroline Delamatre; Edith Smallwood Ledonne; Margaret Greene Bladine; and, Brown Royalties, Appellees.

Court of Appeals of Texas, El Paso.

March 22, 2017.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert Green Hargrove Osborn , Griffith & Hargrove, Austin, TX, for Appellant.

Margaret Greene Bladine, McMinnville, OR, pro se.

Ronald Holman , Holman Robertson Eldridge, PC, Dallas, TX, for Appellee Bentley.

Harper Estes Lynch , Chappel & Alsup, Steven C. Kiser Lynch , Chappell & Alsup, Midland, TX, for Appellee Chevron.

George S. Finley , Smith Rose Finley P.C., San Angelo, TX, for Appellee March Ranch LLC.

Rob Crumpler Davis , Gerald & Cremer, Midland, TX, for Remaining Appellees.

Brown Royalties c/o Deborah Brown Grissen , San Angelo, TX, for Appellee Brown.

Before McClure, C.J., Rodriguez, and Palafox, JJ.

OPINION

He who owns the soil owns everything from the heights of Heaven down to the depths of Hell — or so the old Latin maxim goes.1 If only Texas land law was that simple.

After learning that the defendants (collectively "Chevron") struck...

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