- To the extent
harmonizing contract provisions
Market Value at the Well Trumps Free-Use Clause
By Charles Sartain on
Co-author, Gray Reed partner Jim Reed
The common thread throughout the myriad oil and gas royalty cases decided recently by Texas courts could be “harmony”, the reading of different, seemingly conflicting, contract provisions so as to give meaning to all.
In Enervest Operating, LLC v. Mayfield and Ingham the Fourth Court of Appeal harmonized a…