McCormick Oil & Gas v. State

EDWARDS, Judge.

McCormick Oil & Gas Corporation filed a concursus to determine the ownership of royalties on production from certain mineral leases it held in Grand Lake. The more than one hundred defendants constitute two groups, the State group and the landowner group. The trial court granted the State group’s motion for summary judgment, and declared the State group the sole owners of the mineral royalties in dispute.

A timely devolutive appeal was taken, but it is unclear exactly which defendants *537appealed. The motion for appeal states that it is a motion “of all the defendants in the above…