TXO Production Corp. v. State Ex Rel. Commissioners of the Land Office

SIMMS, Justice:

Defendants, Commissioners of the Land Office and the individual members in their official capacity (Commissioners), appeal the order of the trial court granting summary judgment to plaintiffs, TXO Production Corp. and Delhi Gas Pipeline Corporation1 (TXO), on TXO’s declaratory action regarding post-production costs under an oil and gas lease. The trial court held TXO properly withheld post-production costs from its royalty payments to Commissioners, and Commissioners appealed (Case No. 78,205). Later, the trial court awarded litigation costs to TXO but denied TXO’s request for…