Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Leal v. Cuanto Antes Mejor LLC No. 04-14-00694-CV, 2015 WL 3999034 (Tex. App.—San Antonio July 1, 2015, no pet.) (mem. op.) (Fixed or floating royalty) held that a deed conveyed a […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Hysaw v. Dawkins, 483 S.W.3d 1 (Tex. 2016) (Double fraction conveyances) considered the double-fraction issue in the context of a will-construction dispute and held that the will devised a fraction of […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. KCM Financial LLC v. Bradshaw examines the nature of the duty owed by the executive and the executive’s lessee to the non-executive in an oil and gas leasing transaction. Two deeds […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Graham v. Prochaska applied the “estate-misconception theory” to assume the parties to an old deed did themselves assume the lease royalty would always be 1/8, and therefore the 1950 deed reserved […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Kimble v. Gostecnik held that a deed may by reference to a term interest reserve the same interest upon the expiration of the term for an unlimited term. The […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of some significance to you. Mims v. Beall, 810 S.W.2d 876 (Tex. App.–Texarkana 1991, no writ), is another in the recent explosion of Texas cases holding the executive owner liable for breach of duty […]
Richard F. Brown The following is not a legal opinion. You should consult your attorney if the case may be of significance to you. Headington Oil Co., L.P. v. White, 287 S.W.3d 204 (Tex. App.-Houston [14th Dist.] 2009, no pet.), held that interest was not payable on suspended royalties when the size of […]
