Pennzoil v. Socony Mobil Oil Company

OPINION

PRESLAR, Justice.

This is an appeal from an order granting the defendants’ motion for summary judgment. Involved are questions of whether appellant, as plaintiff below, was barred by the doctrines of estoppel, waiver and ratification from obtaining the relief which it sought. We reverse and remand.

All of the parties hereto are parties to two agreements to unitize their interests in some sixteen sections of land in the Coya-nosa Wolf camp Field of Pecos County, Texas, for the production of oil, gas and associated minerals. Under the terms of the agreements, the parties were to share on…