Legal Opinion
Averyt v. Grande, Inc.
Texas Supreme Court
Decided July 2, 1986No. C-4009PublishedCited by 55 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SPEARS, Justice.
The issue in this declaratory judgment action is whether a mineral reservation in a general warranty deed reserves a fraction of the entire mineral estate or only a fraction of the undivided one-half mineral interest owned and conveyed by the grantor. The trial court held that the reservation reserved a fraction of the entire mineral estate. The court of appeals affirmed. 686 S.W.2d 632. We affirm.
On September 30, 1977, Respondent Grande, Inc. conveyed the real property in question to the Fogelmans. The Fogel-mans then conveyed the property to Petitioner James R. Averyt,…
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