CONOCOPHILLIPS CO. v. RAMIREZ

No. 17-0822.

599 S.W.3d 296 (2020)

CONOCOPHILLIPS COMPANY, Rodolfo C. Ramirez, Individually and as Independent Administrator of the Estate of Ileana Ramirez, and El Milagro Minerals, Ltd., Petitioners, v. Leon Oscar RAMIREZ, Jr., Individually, and Jesus M. Dominguez, as Guardian of the Estate of Minerva Clementina Ramirez, an Incapacitated Person, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

Opinion delivered: January 24, 2020.

Rehearing Denied May 29, 2020.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adolf Campero Jr. , Amanda Leigh Cottrell , Darrell L. Barger , Cynthia Keely Timms , Michael V. Powell , Ellen B. Mitchell , for ConocoPhillips Company.

Juan Francisco Tamez , John Andrew Kazen , for El Milagro Minerals, Ltd.

Thomas R. Phillips , Jesse R. Castillo , Ellen E. Springer , Macey Reasoner Stokes , Edward C. Snyder III , Benjamin A. Geslison , Melanie A. Castillo , for El Milagro Minerals, Ltd., Rodolfo C. Ramirez.

Kurt H. Kuhn , Karlene D. Poll , for Leon Oscar Ramirez Jr., Jesus M. Dominguez.

John B. McFarland , for Texas Land and Mineral Owners' Association.

Bruce John Werstak III , for Rosalinda Ramirez Eckhardt, Leon O. Ramirez Jr.


The issue we decide in this case is whether a devise of "all ... right, title and interest in and to Ranch `Las Piedras'" refers only to a surface estate by that name as understood by the testatrix and beneficiaries at the time the will was made or also includes the mineral estate. We conclude...

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