Texas Gas Exploration Corp. v. Lafourche Realty Co.

|aThe merits of this appeal in these consolidated cases relate to the interpretation of an oil royalty payment clause in an oil and gas lease. After rendering a partial summary judgment interpreting the clause, the district court signed an order of appeal and simultaneously issued a per curiam explaining why the district court declined to certify the judgment as final for purposes of an immediate appeal. After the record was lodged in this court, we issued, ex proprio motu, a rule for the parties to show cause by briefs why the instant appeal should not be dismissed as having been taken from…