Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. v. McDonald

OPINION

BURGESS, Justice.

Mobil Exploration & Producing U.S. Inc. (“Mobil”) seeks review by writ of error from a declaratory judgment suit between W.R. McDonald and .Vivian C. Burch. The original suit was entitled “Choice M. Thompson and Syble Day Thompson v. Mobil Producing Texas & New Mexico, Inc., Union Texas Petroleum Corp., J.M. Huber Corporation, et al.” W.R. McDonald filed an intervention in which he claimed an interest in 33.5 acres which were also claimed by Vivian C. Burch, a named defendant. This intervention was severed from the original suit. McDonald filed a petition for…