Enserch Exploration, Inc. v. Wimmer

BOYD, Justice.

Appellant Enserch Exploration, Inc. brings this appeal from a judgment in favor of appellees Shirla Ann Wimmer, Robert Michael Nichols, and Charles Wendell Nichols, and intervenor Foy E. Nichols rendered after a bench trial. This suit was brought by appellees, remaindermen under a deed in favor of their deceased father C.W. Nichols, asserting that appellant improperly paid oil and gas royalties to a life tenant under the deed, their grandmother. Foy E. Nichols (intervenor), also a remain-derman under a similar deed in his favor, intervened in the suit. In his intervention he…