Kadrmas v. Sauvageau

TEIGEN, Judge.

The issue in this appeal is whether a mineral exception and reservation contained in the granting clause of a warranty deed effectively excepted and reserved in the grantors a one-half mineral interest.

On March 13, 1962, Emil P. Sauvageau and Kathleen M. Sauvageau, husband and wife, conveyed by warranty deed to Frank Kadrmas and Betty Jane Kadrmas the Southeast Quarter of Section 11, Township 139, Range 99, and other lands. In the granting clause of the warranty deed and immediately following the description of the land is contained the following exception and reservation:

“except…