Edwards v. Carter Oil Co.

Sam BobiNsoN, Associate Justice.

This action involves the ownership of part of the minerals in 65 acres of land. It is the practice in oil fields to refer to the ownership of a percentage of the minerals in a given tract of land as so many “acres of minerals,” or “mineral acres.” As an example, if a person owns 25/100ths of the minerals in 100 acres, he is regarded as owning 25 “mineral acres,” or 25 “acres of minerals.” We will follow that practice in this case.

A grantor’s act in purporting'to--convey 16.1 acres of minerals and to reserve 10 acres1 of minerals, when he had title to only 11.8…