Mary Greer v. J. Hiram Moore, Ltd.

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice DORSEY.

This is an appeal from a summary judgment granted to J. Hiram Moore, Ltd. (Moore) based on the construction of a royalty deed from Mary Greer, appellant, to Moore’s predecessor in title. The issue is the effect of a clause in that royalty deed and whether it conveyed royalty in a tract not included in the specific description of the deed. We hold it does not, and reverse and remand.

Mary Greer and her three sisters each received a twenty-acre tract of land from their mother out of the mother’s eightya- ere tract from the I. & G.N.R.R. Co. Survey No. 6 in Wharton…