Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. v. Discovery Operating, Inc.

OPINION

JIM R. WRIGHT, CHIEF JUSTICE

Discovery Operating, Inc. (Discovery) and Patriot Royalty and Land, LLC (Patriot) brought a trespass to try title action against Endeavor Energy Resources, L.P. and Endeavor Petroleum, LLC (collectively Endeavor). Claiming under various oil and gas leases, the parties asserted competing claims of title to, and ownership of, determinable fee interests in the minerals in the following lands: (1) NW/4 Section 9, Block 35, T-l-N, T & P Ry. Co. Survey, Martin County, Texas; and (2) SW/4 Section 4, Block 35, T-l-N, T & P Ry. Co. Survey, Martin County, Texas.…