Lloyd Hayes v. Gulf Oil Corporation, Now Known by Change of Name as Chevron Usa, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding Texas district court lacked subject matter jurisdiction over lessee’s action against assignee to terminate assignee’s interest in Colorado oil and gas lease
• tracing development of local action doctrine and affirming its continued viability in Texas law
• “[A] defect in venue must be raised by timely motion or by pleading by the objecting party.”
• “A local action involving real property can only be brought within the territorial boundaries of the state where the land is located.”
• “A local action involving real property can only be brought within the territorial boundaries of the state where the land is located.”
• ‘A defect in the district court’s subject matter jurisdiction ... may be raised at any time by the parties or the court itself and cannot be waived.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).