Ambassador Oil Corporation v. Robertson

ARCHER, Chief Justice.

French M. Robertson, a surface and royalty owner sued Blackwell Zinc Company, Inc., American Metal Climax, Inc., American Climax Petroleum Corporation and Amax Petroleum Corporation, as one or a group of affiliated companies, and Union Texas Petroleum, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, d/b/a Frankfort Oil Company, and Joseph E. Seagram & Son, Inc., the second group, as claimed operators of the Golds-boro Unit in the East Goldsboro (Gardner) Field in Coleman and Runnels Counties, Texas. The plaintiff sought a Declaratory Judgment determining (a) the title to all of the personal…