Supreme Court of Texas

In a dispute concerning the notice provisions of an oil and gas operating contract, judgment in favor of defendant is reversed where the parties' agreement does not require a thirty-day notice period to expire before an operator can commence work on the proposed drilling operations.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/20/2005
• Published 05/23/2005

Judges

• Justice WAINWRIGHT delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Michael E. Warwick, Abney & Warwick, Marshall, Thomas A. Zabel, Burns Wooley Marseglia & Zabel, L.L.P., Houston, for petitioner., Everard A. Marseglia Jr., Burns Wooley Marseglia & Zabel, L.L.P., Morgan L. Copeland Jr., Catherine B. Smith, Ara L. Ayles, Vinson & Elkins L.L.P., Gary C. Johnson, Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Houston, for amicus curiae.


• For Appellees:
  
• Edwin E. Buckner, Law Offices of Edwin E. Buckner, Jr., Marshall, for respondent.