Holloway's Unknown Heirs v. Whatley

COMBS, Justice.

This suit involves title to a one-half undivided oil and mineral interest in 899 acres of land, a part of the Moses Donahoe league in Liberty county. The case was submitted on an agreed statement of facts; the sole question involved being a construction of a deed by F. H. Holloway, predecessor in title of the appellants, as grantor, to Jacob C. Baldwin, predecessor in title to the appellees, as grantee. The precise question is whether Holloway’s conveyance of all of the "land owned by me in Liberty county” operated as a conveyance of said mineral interest which had been…