Supreme Court of Texas

In an oil and gas lease dispute, a court of appeals judgment reversing a trial court judgment in favor of an operator is reversed where an operating agreement did not expressly provide that respondent-seller's obligations under the operating agreement should terminate upon assignment, and the operator did not expressly release respondent following the assignment of its working interest.

Appellate Information

• Argued 11/30/2005
• Decided 06/16/2006
• Published 06/16/2006

Judges

• Justice MEDINA delivered the opinion of the Court.

Court

• Supreme Court of Texas

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• William P. Maines, William J. Boyce, Fulbright & Jaworski L.L.P., Paul J. Franzetti, McDade Fogler, Houston, for petitioner.


• For Appellees:
  
• Carl D. Rosenblum, John D. White, Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre, The Woodlands, Alida C. Hainkel, Jones Walker Waechter Poitevent Carrere & Denegre, New Orleans, LA, J.D. Page, Doyle Restrepo Harwin & Robbins, Houston, for respondent.