Union Oil Co. of Cal. v. Colglazier

Union Oil Company (Union) appeals from the grant of a summary judgment for plaintiffs, Colglazier, et al., and the denial of its own motion for summary judgment, in a declaratory judgment action in which plaintiffs were found to own an undivided one-half interest in and to all the oil, gas and minerals in a tract of land in Mobile County, free and clear of an oil, gas and mineral lease held by the defendant, Union. We affirm.

Plaintiffs are grantees of Conservation Land Company (Conservation), which originally owned both the surface and minerals of the land in question, the Northwest Quarter…