Legal Opinion
Guaranty Petroleum Corp. v. Armstrong
Texas Supreme Court
Decided October 22, 1980No. B-9260PublishedCited by 52 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
POPE, Justice.
The question presented is whether the Brownsville Navigation District, relator, had statutory authority to act as the State’s agent for the execution of an oil and gas lease that the District made with relator Guaranty Petroleum Corporation. We hold that the Navigation District had the authority, and we grant the prayer for a mandamus ordering the Commissioner of the General Land Office to accept and file the lease.
In 1939 the State patented 16,904.4 acres in the H. M. Skelton Survey, Cameron County, to Gatewood Newberry with a reservation of the minerals. Newberry sold the land…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Missouri Pacific Railroad v. Brownsville Navigation DistrictTexas Supreme Court · 1970
- Robert E. McKee, General Contractor v. PattersonTexas Supreme Court · 1954
- Greene v. RobisonTexas Supreme Court · 1928
- Bennett v. Brown County Water Improvement District No. OneTexas Supreme Court · 1954
- Willacy County Water Control & Improvement District No. 1 v. AbendrothTexas Supreme Court · 1944
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