Shell Cortez Pipeline Co. v. Shores

OPINION

SUE WALKER, Justice.

I. INTRODUCTION

Two groups of Appellants, the Mobil defendants 1 (collectively referred to as “Mobil”) and the Shell defendants 2 (collectively referred to as “Shell”) bring interlocutory appeals from a class certification order entered by the statutory probate court of Denton County. See Tex. Civ. PRAC. & Rem.Code Ann. § 51.014 (Vernon Supp.2004). The probate court certified a nationwide class of current and former overriding royalty owners in the McElmo Dome Unit, located in Colorado, and their claims for breach of contract, declaratory judgment, breach of agency…