State Ex Rel. Commissioners of the Land Office v. Butler

*1340OPALA, Justice,

with whom HARGRAVE, Vice Chief Justice, and LAVENDER, Justice, join, dissenting.

Today’s opinion affirms summary judgment for the plaintiff and quiets his title to all the coal rights in the property in litigation. The court holds that a reservation by the Oklahoma Commissioners of the Land Office [Commissioners] of a fifty-percent interest in all the “oil, gas and other mineral rights” underlying state lands retains in the grantor solely oil and gas, its constituents and components. The court specifically excludes from the ambit of the reservation both coal and other…