Texas Supreme Court Holds that References to “One-Eighth” in Old Oil and Gas Conveyances Presumptively Refer to the Entire Mineral Estate
The Energy Law
MARCH 7, 2023
The Texas Supreme Court recently released its opinion in Van Dyke v. Navigators Grp. , 21-0146, 2023 WL 2053175 (Tex. 17, 2023), in which it re-affirmed the axiomatic principle that a text retains the same meaning in the present day as when it was drafted. In support of that notion, the Court cited the 1957 Texas Supreme Court case Garrett v.
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