Majors v. Easley

STANLEY, Commissioner.

This action to quiet title to the oil and gas and other liquid minerals underlying 66 acres of land located in Webster County is to be determined by the construction to be given a deed executed October 19, 1906, by J. B. Ramsey and wife to the Sebree Coal and Mining Company. The adversary claimants derived their respective titles from the grantor and the grantee in that instrument.

The granting clause of the deed (which embraced nine different tracts, aggregating 332 acres) was of “the coal and mineral, with the right and privilege to mine and dig same.” The habendum was…