Melchior v. Lystad

SANDSTROM, Justice.

[¶ 1] Roger and Barbara Melchior appeal a district court’s award of summary judgment to the Lystad family and their trustee, granting the trustee quiet title to mineral interests in land in Mountrail County. We affirm.

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[¶2] In 1973, Walter and Edith Hal-vorson conveyed property to Kenneth and Hope Lystad. At the time, the Halvorsons owned a one-half interest in the oil and gas, as well as all of the gravel, in and under the land. The contract for deed stated that the Halvorsons reserved “an undivided one-half of the oil, gas and gravel in, on and under the above-described…