Bodcaw Lumber Co. v. Goode

McCulloch. C. J.

This controversy involves the gas, oil and other mineral rights in and under a certain tract of land, containing forty acres, in Columbia County. Appellant, a corporation, formerly owned the land in fee simple, and in the year 1912 it conveyed the land to appellee by warranty deed but the granting clause contained a reservation (or exception) of the oil, gas and other mineral rights, in the following language:

“Reserving to the grantor, its successors and assigns, all of the gas, oil and minerals and mineral rights in and under said land, with the right to prospect for and…