Alford v. Krum

BARROW, Justice.

This is a suit to construe a mineral deed executed in 1929 by Mr. and Mrs. Frank Roncaba in favor of Walter A. Mang. The Alfords and others are successors of the Roncabas, the original grantors. Minnie Rrum and others are the successors to Mang, the original grantee. After a non-jury trial, the trial court rendered judgment construing the deed to mean that the Roncabas conveyed only an undivided one-sixteenth mineral interest in an 85.9 acre tract. The court of appeals, with one justice dissenting, reversed the judgment, holding that the Roncabas conveyed a one-half interest…