Panel:  Leaseholder Not Owed Royalties; Previous Landowner Did Not Waive Rights

(January 13, 2020, 7:52 AM EST) -- FORT WORTH, Texas — A Texas appellate panel on Dec. 19 affirmed a lower court ruling that a landowner was not entitled to royalties from hydraulic fracturing operations on a disputed tract of land because the previous owner of the land did not waive her rights (Richard D. Crawford v. XTO Energy Inc., No. 02-18-00217, Texas App., 2nd Dist., Fort Worth, 2019 Tex. App. LEXIS 11066)....