State v. Flag-Redfern Oil Co.

OPINION ON MOTION FOR REHEARING

SPECTOR, Justice.

The Respondents’ motion for rehearing is overruled. The court’s opinion of March 3, 1993 is withdrawn, and the following is substituted therefor.

These two causes were submitted together because both involve the authority of the Texas General Land Office to determine contract rights under state mineral leases.1 In each cause, the court of appeals affirmed a summary judgment granting declaratory relief on the ground that the Natural Resources Code does not authorize the General Land Office to adjudicate such contract rights. We conclude that the…