Brown v. Havard

BARROW, Justice.

This is a declaratory judgment suit to determine the extent of royalty reserved to *940the grantors of a deed. The questions presented are whether evidence extrinsic to the deed may be considered to explain its proper construction, or whether the present owners of the property, who are successors to the grantees in the deed, may reform it.

The jury verdict was for respondents, who are successors to the grantees;1 however, the trial court granted judgment non obstante veredicto in favor of petitioners, who are the grantors of the deed in question. This judgment was based on the…