Cantley v. Hubbard

623 So.2d 1079 (1993)

James Bookout CANTLEY, et al.

v.

Howell HUBBARD, et al.[1]

1911384.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

June 25, 1993.

Terry McElheny and Mary P. Thornton of Dominick, Fletcher, Yeilding, Wood & Lloyd, P.A., Birmingham, for appellants.

Charles M. Coleman of Crownover, Coleman & Standridge, Tuscaloosa, for appellees.

ALMON, Justice.

This appeal presents a question of construction of a mineral reservation in a 1929 deed. The trial court held that by that deed the grantor reserved all minerals; the heirs of the grantee appeal.

In 1924, the United States granted a land patent to George Hallman,…