Coghill v. Griffith

OPINION

JAMES T. WORTHEN, Chief Justice.

This appeal involves the construction of a royalty reservation in a 1961 Rusk County deed. Appellant, Patricia H. Coghill, contends that under the future lease clause, the grantor reserved one-eighth of the royalty (a fraction of royalty). Appel-lees, Henry Wyatt Griffith and Syble Griffith, contend the grantor reserved only a one-eighth of a one-eighth royalty (a fractional royalty). In three issues, Coghill contends the trial court erred in granting summary judgment for the Griffiths determining that the royalty reservation was a fractional royalty and…