MITCHELL v. MAP RESOURCES, INC.

No. 21-0124.

649 S.W.3d 180 (2022)

Stephen L. MITCHELL, Janie Mitchell Belew, Lisa Mitchell Seigmann, and Linda Mitchell Stapleton, Petitioners, v. MAP RESOURCES, INC., Pecos Bend Royalties, LLP, PBR Properties Joint Ventures, and Tommy Vascocu, Respondents.

Supreme Court of Texas.

OPINION DELIVERED: May 13, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sean M. Guerrero , Emilee N. Crowther , Janet R. Pritchett , Stephanie Perry , Stubbeman, McRae, Sealy, Laughlin & Browder, Inc., Midland, for Petitioners.

Joseph "Joe" R. Greenhill III , Jeffrey Kuhnhenn , John H. Cayce Jr. , Kelly Hart & Hallman LLP, Fort Worth, Max Wright , Max E. Wright, PLLC, Midland, for Respondent Map Resources, Inc.

Michael T. Morgan , Morgan Leeton, PC, Midland, for Respondents PBR Properties Joint Venture, Pecos Bend Royalties, LLP, Vascocu, Tommy.

John B. McFarland , Guillermo Alarcon , Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, P.C., Austin, for Amici Curiae Trautman, Kathleen Smith, KST Properties, LP.

Guillermo Alarcon , Graves Dougherty Hearon & Moody, P.C., Austin, for Amicus Curiae Graves, Dougherty, Hearon & Moody, P.C.


Elizabeth S. Mitchell owned a mineral interest in property in Reeves County, and she died in 2009. Her heirs, the petitioners, sued to declare void a 1999 default judgment foreclosing a tax lien on Elizabeth's interest, alleging that she was not properly served with notice of the underlying foreclosure...

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