Kodiak Resources, Inc. v. Smith

OPINION

HOLLIS HORTON, Justice.

Patricia Ann Smith, Beverly Lee Smith Sunday, Melody Koch, Keith Weeks, T.J. Pilgrim, Deanna Prunes, and Lee Ann Graham1 filed a suit under the Uniform Declaratory Judgment Act (DJA) seeking a declaration that a mineral lease2 had terminated. See Tex. Civ. Prac. & Rem. Code Ann. §§ 37.001-.011 (West 2008). The trial court entered a judgment declaring “that the leases did not continue.” When the trial court granted judgment, Frances Aileen Nunnally, Barbara Joy Smith Roberts, William Wayne Cogbill, *248and Prunes,3 who were all parties to the lease, were not parties…