Robbins v. Phi Resources, Ltd.

Opinion

DICKENSON, Justice.

The issue is whether the heirs of an “unknown” owner have two years, or only thirty days, to file a motion for new trial in connection with an order authorizing a court-appointed receiver to execute a lease on an undivided mineral interest pursuant to TEX.REV.CIV.STAT.ANN. art. 2320b, codified September 1, 1985, as TEX.CIV. PRAC. & REM.CODE sec. 64.091 (Vernon Pamph.1986).

This new code was adopted as a part of the statutory revision program “without substantive change.” See TEX.CIV.PRAC. & REM.CODE sec. 1.001 (Vernon Pamph. 1986). Section 64.091, supra, entitled…