Corine, Inc. v. Harris

OPINION

Opinion by

Chief Justice MORRISS.

In 1970, Jack and Jo Anne Harris purchased an approximately 528.14-acre tract of land in Johnson County, 1 Texas, from Marie Stevens, Mary Lou Stevens McDonald, and Judy Nell Stevens Ellis. In the conveyance to the Harrises, the three grantors retained, altogether, a 1/16 royalty interest that would last for twenty years and thereafter until there was no mineral production. 2 In 1983, the Harrises con veyed that land to Charles L. Stephens, retaining the following:

all of those royalty rights reserved by Marie Stevens, her heirs, executors and…