Robert F. Ford, Jr. v. Exxon Mobil Chemical Company, a Division of Exxonmobil Corporation

This suit involves one pipeline, two litigants, three tracts, and four deeds. In the fourth and final deed, Robert Ford granted a pipeline easement across three tracts of land, but now claims he did so based on misrepresentations about the three previous deeds. The court of appeals unanimously held his fraud claim barred by limitations, but in a divided opinion ordered the easement cancelled and the pipeline removed anyway because no statute of limitations applied to an equitable action to quiet title. 187 S.W.3d 154, 159-60 (TexApp.-Beaumont 2006). As we agree with the dissenting justice…