Springer Ranch, Ltd. v. Jones

OPINION

Opinion by:

LUZ ELENA D. CHAPA, Justice.

In this appeal from a declaratory judgment, we must construe a 1993 contract to determine the allocation of royalties from a horizontal well that begins on the property of the appellant, Springer Ranch, Ltd., but ends under the property of Rosalie Matthews Sullivan, one of the appellees. Our construction will also govern the allocation of royalties to future horizontal wells covered by the contract. The trial court held the contract required royalties from the horizontal well in dispute, and any future horizontal wells crossing the parties’…