Burket v. Delaware Drilling Corporation

OPINION

PRESLAR, Justice.

This is a suit to determine the ownership of the %ths working interest in a producing oil and gas lease upon a 20-acre tract of land in Loving County, Texas. Trial was to a jury and title was awarded to an intervenor, and the defendants appear as appellants and the intervenor as appellee. We affirm the judgment of the trial court.

Delaware Drilling Corporation and others instituted the suit in the nature of a trespass to try title against Maxwell Burket and others. Burket cross-acted for reimbursement for money advanced and obligations incurred in preservation of the…