Sun Oil (Delaware) v. Madeley

DIES, Chief Justice.

Plaintiffs below are successors in title to W. N. Foster and Keystone Mills Company, who as lessors entered into an oil, gas, and mineral lease and operating agreement with Sun Oil Company, as lessee, and defendant below, covering 640 acres of land in the Bricker Survey of Montgomery County, Texas. Plaintiffs brought suit for a declaratory judgment praying that such agreement required defendant to account to plaintiffs (as derivative lessors) for the royalties therein provided, and also for one-half of the seven-eighths working interest in oil, condensate, and gas…