Legal Opinion
Occidental Permian Ltd. v. Helen Jones Foundation
Texas Court of Appeals, 7th District (Amarillo)
Decided April 12, 2011No. 07-09-00059-CVPublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
JAMES T. CAMPBELL, Justice.
Owners of royalty interests 2 in lands in the Slaughter Field 3 brought suit seeking damages for underpaid royalties on casing-head gas 4 against the current lease operator, Occidental Permian Ltd. (“OPL”), and two former operators of the leases. The royalty owners also asserted a claim against OPL for royalties on carbon dioxide. The trial court granted summary judgment for the operators on some claims, and a jury heard the remaining claims. After a verdict in favor of the royalty owners, the trial court signed a judgment disregarding the jury’s award of…
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