OPINION
Appellants William L. Dixon, Sr., his wife Georgia S. Dixon, A.W. Witcher, and his wife Betty L. Witcher bring this interlocutory appeal from the trial court’s partial judgment that the property description in a gas unit designation (“Unit Designation”) filed by Amoco Production Company (“Amoco”) is legally sufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds. 1 They contend in *193 two issues that the legal description in the Unit Designation is insufficient to satisfy the statute of frauds and that the Unit Designation is therefore void. We affirm.
Background
On July 15, 1993, William L. Dixon, Sr. аnd Georgia S. Dixon (collectively “Dixon”) executed an oü, gas, and mineral lease (the “Dixon Lease”) to Amoco as lessee. The Dixon Lease stated, “Lessee [Amoco] is granted the right and power to pool all or any part of the leased premises with any other lands, as to any stratum or strata and as to any mineral or minerals, and as to all or any interests therein, and by whomsoever owned, for developmеnt and operation of the same as a unit or units.” Less than a month later, A.W. Witcher and Betty L. Witcher (collectively ‘Witcher”) executed an oil, gas, and mineral lease (the Witcher Lease”) with the same pooling сlause, which was subsequently assigned to Amoco. Both leases also stated that the designation of a pooled unit would be effective when filed in the appropriate records of the county in which the leаsed premises are situated. Both the Dixon Lease and the Witcher Lease were for a three-year term and described lands located in Upshur County.
Amoco eventually controlled leases covering over 1,500 acres of land, including the Dixon and Witcher Leases. In July of 1995, Amoco drilled a producing gas well on Dixon’s land. On August 10, 1995, Amoco filed the Unit Designation. Attached to the Unit Designation were two exhibits. The first exhibit contained a list of fоrty-four leases controlled by Amoco, which described over 1,500 acres of land (“Unit Designation List of Leases”), and included the recording information for each lease from the Official Records of Upshur County. The sеcond exhibit was a Tobin Map, which was marked with a bold outline encircling eleven tracts that were to be part of the pooled-645 acre unit (“Unit Designation Map”). Almost a year later, on August 1, 1996, Amoco filed a First Amendment to Designation (“Amended Unit Designation”). This Amended Unit Designation contained a metes and bounds description of the perimeter of the area encircled on the Unit Designation Map attached to the Unit Designation filed a year earlier. After the Amended Unit Designation was filed, two other producing wells were drilled on the Dixon Unit.
On July 15, 1999, Dixon and Witcher filed suit seeking a declaratory judgment that the Unit Designation was void because it did not contain a sufficient legal description of the 645 acres. Because the Unit Designation was void, Dixon and Witcher contended, (1) the Dixon Lease expired as to lands within the unit, (2) the Witcher Lease expired, and (3) to the еxtent any producing well was located on lands covered by either lease, the lessors named in the lease were entitled to a full royalty. In July of 2002, the trial court conducted a separate trial on the sole issue of whether the property description in the Unit Designation was legally sufficient.
On October 21, 2002, the trial court entered a partial judgment on this issue declaring that the property description in the Unit Designation wаs legally sufficient to describe the pooled gas unit. The partial judgment also included an order for an interlocutory appeal under Section 51.014(d) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code. Dixon and Witсher then filed this interlocutory appeal. In their first and controlling issue, Dixon and Witcher contend that neither the Unit Designation List of Leases nor the Unit Designation Map attached to the Unit Designation constitutes a sufficient legal description.
*194 Standard of Review and Sufficiency of Legal Description
The sufficiency of the legal description in any instrument transferring a property interest is a question of law.
See Haines v. McLean,
The statute of frauds requires that all conveyances of real property be in writing and signed by the party to be charged.
See
Tex. Bus. & Com.Code Ann. § 26.01(b)(4) (Vernon 2002). An instrument conveying land must contain a sufficient legal description or the instrument is void under the statute of frauds.
See Greer v. Greer,
Dixon and Witcher contend that, standing alone, neither the Unit Designation List of Leases nor the Unit Designation Map provides a legally sufficient description for the Unit Designation. Amoco responds that the Unit Designation List of Leases and the Unit Designation Map should be considеred together in determining whether there is a sufficient legal description for the Unit Designation. We agree with Amoco.
A legal instrument conveying land must be examined in its entirety in order to determine if there is a sufficient legal description to satisfy the statute of frauds and therefore transfer an interest in real property.
See Lobit v. Crouch,
During his testimony, Autio was able to take the eleven tracts shown on the Unit Designation Map and compare them with the eleven tracts within the Dixon
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Unit as described by the metes аnd bounds description prepared from his surveys. To the naked eye, the shapes of the tracts in each of the eleven comparisons appear to be similar. The surveyor for Dixon and Witcher agreed that the metes and bounds description contained in the Amended Unit Designation was a sufficient legal description. Moreover, he did not dispute Amoco’s evidence that the metes and bounds description essentiаlly matched the tracts shown on the Unit Designation Map. The unrebutted testimony of a surveyor witness such as Autio showing that an interest in real property can be identified with reasonable certainty is enough evidence fоr a trial court to determine that a legal description is sufficient.
See Gates,
In support of their contention that the legal description in the Unit Designation was insufficient, Dixon and Witcher cite thirteen cases. However, the сases cited involve generalized descriptions that do not refer to recorded instruments or do not show the specific location of the land sought to be conveyed. None of these fact situations еxist in the instant case because of the references to instruments in the Official Records of Upshur County and the specificity of the information on the Tobin Map. The record here shows that the references in thе leases led to other writings in the Official Records of Upshur County (or previous land records) that helped to identify on the ground the location of each tract on the Tobin Map. The Tobin Map includes names оf surveys, general land office abstract numbers, names of owners in the chain of title, acreage amounts in each tract, survey lines for each tract, the lessors of oil, gas, and mineral leases covering each tract, and well sites. Further, Tobin Maps are prepared using aerial photography to eliminate errors in their plotting. They are recognized as the standard for map making in the oil and gas industry. The combinаtion of the instruments throughout the chain of title for each of the forty-four leases identified by volume and page number in the Official Records and the detail of the Tobin Map is enough to provide a sufficient legal description for the Unit Designation. We therefore determine that the cases cited by Dixon and Witcher are inapposite.
Further, Dixon and Witcher contend that there are defects in various instruments throughout the chаin of title involving survey calls, boundary markers, and boundary lines that invalidated the legal description in the Unit Designation. Dixon and Witcher contend that these defects created gaps between various tracts shown in the Unit Dеsignation. Amoco contends that errors, mistakes, inconsistencies, and omissions in the legal descriptions of the instruments in the chain of title did not invalidate the legal description in the Unit Designation. When there are mistakеs or discrepancies in instruments in a chain of title, a court must, if practical, correct errors to give legal effect to later instruments conveying an interest in the subject real property.
See Howland v. Hough,
We do not reach the Dixon and Witch-er’s second issue regarding the defect оf the Amended Unit Designation since the issue was contingent upon our sustaining their first issue. See Tex.R.App. P. 47.1.
Conclusion
Having overruled Dixon and Witcher’s first issue and having concluded that we need not address their second issue, the judgment of the trial court is affirmed.
Notes
. This appeal was filed pursuant to section 51.014(d)-(f) of the Texas Civil Practice and Remedies Code.