# Range Resources Corp. v. Bradshaw

> Court of Appeals of Texas · October 2, 2008 · 266 S.W.3d 490

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9666411

## Case

- **Full name:** RANGE RESOURCES CORPORATION and Range Production I, L.P. Steadfast Financial, LLC, R.J. Sikes, Kathy Sikes, Christy Rome, Greg Louvier, Pam Louvier, and Dacota Investment Holdings, LLP and R. Crist Vial, Appellants, v. Betty Lou BRADSHAW, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals of Texas
- **Decided:** October 2, 2008
- **Citations:** 266 S.W.3d 490; 2008 WL 3540216
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Cayce
- **Judges:** Cayce, Livingston, McCOY
- **Cited by:** 35 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting share of production attributable to fraction of royalty is not fixed but "floats" with quantum of royalty contained in lease
- discussing reservation language similarly indicating parties contemplated future leasing

## Opinion text

JOHN CAYCE, Chief Justice,
dissenting.
I respectfully dissent. As a matter of law, the two 1960 deeds at issue reserved a fixed fractional l/16th non-participating royalty interest. The appellee’s contention to the contrary requires us to ignore numerous rules of contract construction, to give no effect to the “being equal to” language in the deeds, and to imply from the “not less than” phrase in the deeds a reservation of interest in favor of the grantor that is more than the plain language of the deeds allows. I would, therefore, grant appellants’ motions for rehearing, reverse the trial court’s partial summary judgment, and render judgment that appellee take nothing on her claims against appellants.

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