Court Opinion

ID: 9776436
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-29 19:35:42.526729+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:32:38.846937
License: Public Domain

ON MOTION FOR REHEARING
WALKER, Justice.
In their motions for rehearing, respondents correctly point out:
(1) That since L. A. Nordan did not give notice of appeal or except to the trial court’s judgment, he is not in position to complain of the action of that court in denying him a recovery for past drainage, West Texas Utilities Co. v. Irvin, 161 Tex. 5, 336 S.W.2d 609;
(2) That neither Nordan nor Mrs. Gaines complained in their motions for rehearing in the Court of Civil Appeals of the modification by that court of the declaratory portion of the trial court’s judgment; and
(3) That the judgment of the trial court includes interest on the several money recoveries to November 1, 1965, rather than to April 12, 1965, as we thought when our original opinion was handed down.
The motions for rehearing are accordingly granted, in part, our former judgment is set aside, and judgment is now rendered as follows:
The judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals is set aside, and it is ordered:
(1) That all claims and controversies between Juan M. Vela, Carlos Vela, Ernestina Vela, Emma Vela de Garcia and husband, Jesus M. Garcia, on the one hand, and Texas Oil & Gas Corporation, Claudia L. Eaves and husband, Jack R. Eaves, Anita Nordan Lindsay and husband, Sidney A. Lindsay, Marian Nordan Hudson and husband, Harold W. Hudson, individually and as members of the partnership of Nordan & Company, Hannah D. Gaines and husband, Arthur Gaines (but only in her capacity as a defendant-operator and not in her capacity as a plaintiff-royalty owner), Mrs. Leo G. Moss and husband, Leo G. Moss, Raymond Gibbs, administrator of the estate of C. T. Jamison, deceased, Jessie Faye Gibbs Jamison, a widow, individually and as guardian of the persons and estates of Michael E. Jamison and Patrick Jamison, minors, C. A. Reiter, and Delhi-Taylor Oil Corporation, on the other, be severed, and as to all such claims and controversies the judgment of the trial court is set aside and the cause is dismissed as moot without opinion or adjudication on the merits;
(2) That the action of L. A. Nordan to recover damages for drainage that may have occurred prior to April 12, 1965, the date of trial, is severed, and as to this part of the case the judgment of the trial court is affirmed;
(3) That the judgment of the trial court in so far as it denies L. A. Nordan and Mrs. Hannah D. Gaines any recovery for future drainage or the failure to reasonably develop the leased premises, denies Mrs. Hannah D. Gaines any recovery for past drainage, directs Texas Oil & Gas Corporation to drill additional wells and provides that the lease shall be cancelled and terminated in the event additional wells are not drilled in the manner and within the *882time therein provided, is reversed. These parts of the case are also severed, and as to them the cause is remanded to the district court;
(4) That as to the remainder of the cause:
(a) The declaratory portion of the trial court’s judgment is reformed as provided in the judgment of the Court of Civil Appeals ;
(b) The judgment of the trial court in favor of L. A. Nordan for royalties due and unpaid is reformed to provide that he recover from Delhi-Taylor Oil Corporation the sum of $1,411.76, from the Venture Group the sum of $4,077.39, from Texas Oil & Gas Corporation the sum of $1,726.95, from Mrs. Hannah D. Gaines the sum of $1,363.12, from Nordan & Company the sum of $1,363.12, from Mrs. Leo G. Moss the sum of $1,226.81, from the C. T. Jami-son Estate the sum of $1,226.81, and from C. A. Reiter the sum of $272.62, with interest on each of said amounts from November 1, 1965, at the rate of six per cent per annum ;
(c) The judgment of the trial court in favor of Mrs. Hannah D. Gaines for royalties due and unpaid is reformed to provide that she recover from Delhi-Taylor Oil Corporation the sum of $1,058.83, from the Venture Group the sum of $3,057.86, from Nordan & Company the sum of $1,022.34, from Mrs. Leo G. Moss the sum of $920.11, from the C. T. Jamison Estate the sum of $920.11, from C. A. Reiter the sum of $204.47, and from Texas Oil & Gas Corporation the sum of $1,295.21, with interest on each of said amounts from November 1, 1965, at the rate of six per cent per annum; and
(d) The judgment of the trial court as so reformed is affirmed.
In all other respects the motions for rehearing are overruled. The parties will have 15 days from this date within which to file motions for rehearing.