O'BRIEN v. Village Land Co.

We granted certiorari to review the decision of the court of appeals in O’Brien v. Village Land Company, 780 P.2d 1 (Colo.App.1988). The court of appeals, in construing an unambiguous deed which conveyed a fee simple interest in a sixty-acre parcel of land and reserved an undivid ed one-half interest in oil, gas, and other minerals, held that it was proper to go beyond the four corners of the deed and to consider a fractional mineral interest reserved by the grantor’s predecessor in title so as to reduce the fractional mineral interest conveyed by the deed in question. We reject this analysis…