Royalty Owner Held Not a Thdid-Party Beneficiary of Operating Agreement

摘要

Deciding on certified questions from the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the Texas Supreme Court in Tawes v. Barnes, No. 10-0581,2011 WL 1446097 (Tex. Apr. 15,2011), held that a lessor had no right to enforce royalty obligations of her lessee against other parties to a joint operating agreement between her lessee and others.