Richardson v. Moore

The question to be determined herein is the title and ownership of the minerals and mineral rights in certain lands located in Pearl River Couihy, Mississippi.

Edward Hines Yellow Pine Trustees, by warranty deed conveyed the lands to Hoskins-Moore Lumber Company, a co-partnership of four persons, but which deed contained this provision: “The fee herein is subject to mineral and oil rights, if any, now of record and not owned by the grantors herein and subject also to all public highways. ’ ’

It is agreed that no person other than the grantors in that deed then had, or claimed, any mineral…