Legal Opinion
Bowden v. Phillips Petroleum Co.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided February 15, 2008No. 03-0824PublishedCited by 129 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtJustice Wainwright
This is an interlocutory appeal challenging the certification of a class of oil and gas royalty owners under former rule 42(b)(4) of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. 1 The royalty owner class representatives — Kathryn Aylor Bowden, Beulah Poorman Vick, Omer F. Poorman, Royce Yarbrough, Benny Ted Powell, and Monte Cluck — allege that Phillips Petroleum Company underpaid royalties due under oil and gas production leases through its inter-affiliate transactions. The trial court certified three subclasses of royalty owners for breach of lease claims against Phillips and its subsidiaries and…
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