Legal Opinion
Missouri Pac. Rd., Thompson, Trustee v. Strohacker
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Decided May 26, 1941No. 4-6368PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtGriffin Smith, C. J.
Certain lands in Miller county were federal gwernment grants to St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern Railway Company. The Iron Mountain Company’s rights were acquired by Missouri Pacific Railroad Company. In 1892 and 1893, however, the Iron Mountain Company made certain conveyances, reserving “all coal and mineral deposits.”
Appellees, as fee-simple owners, seek to cancel the reservations and to quiet in themselves title to oil and gas. Their contentions are that when the reservations were written into the deeds it was not intended by the term ‘ ‘ all coal and mineral deposits” to include gas…
2Cases cited22 opinions
- Boyd v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1886
- Burke v. Southern Pacific RailroadSupreme Court of the United States · 1914
- Deffeback v. HawkeSupreme Court of the United States · 1885
- Northern Pacific Railway Company v. SoderbergSupreme Court of the United States · 1902
- Osborn v. Arkansas Territorial Oil & Gas Co.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 1912
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3Cited by42 opinions
- Coleman v. Regions BankSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2005
- Brizzolara v. PowellSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1949
- Alexander v. McEwenSupreme Court of Arkansas · 2006
- Carson v. Missouri Pacific Railroad Co., ThompsonSupreme Court of Arkansas · 1948
- Hanners v. Giant Oil Co. of Arkansas, Inc.Supreme Court of Arkansas · 2008
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