Cox v. Gutman

OPINION

WARD, Justice.

This oil and gas case concerns the title to a royalty interest amounting to approximately ¼⅛ of the Vsth royalty from certain lands in Ward County. The Plaintiffs claim as successors to the grantee of a receiver’s deed, and the construction and the effect of that deed is the issue. All claimants filed motions for summary judgment based on stipulated facts. The trial Court denied the Plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment, entered a take nothing judgment as to the Plaintiffs, granted the claimants/Defendants’ motions for summary judgment, and decreed that the royalty…