Yuscavage v. Hamlin

Opinion

Per Curiam,

On this appeal we are called upon to construe a deed in order to determine whether it conveys title to the subsurface gas and oil estates.

In this action to quiet title the facts are undisputed. On April 14, 1919, Pulaski Hamlin and his wife owned and possessed two tracts of land — 64 acres and 20 acres, respectively — located in Exeter Township, Luzerne County, Pa. Nineteen years previously, when Hamlin purchased these two tracts of land, an exception or reservation had been made in the conveyance of “All the coal in and under said two tracts of land, with the right to mine…