Turner v. McBroom

BERRY, Justice:

Plaintiff brought his action to quite title of his interest in the Northeast Quarter of Section Thirty-Two, Township Seventeen North, Range Five West of the Indian Meridian, Kingfisher County, Oklahoma. The trial court quieted title in plaintiff on stipulated facts and defendants appeal. We reverse.

The dispute arises from construction of a reservation clause in a warranty deed conveying a one-third undivided surface and mineral interest from defendants’ predecessors-in-title to plaintiff. Specifically, the deed provides:

“An undivided one-third interest in and to the Northwest…