Elrod v. Heirs in the Estate of Gifford

Hattie Gifford, an unmarried woman and the owner in fee‘ simple of a section of land in Kimball County, sold and conveyed it on May 13, 1943, for a valuable consideration to appellants as joint tenants “subject to and reserving to the grantor herein personally an undivided one-half (%) interest in and to all gas'; oil or other minerals in on or under said land herein. conveyed,” and subject, to “an undivided one-half (%) interest in and to the' mineral fights as above set forth reserved in the grantor herein.” The grantor died intestate in the year 1946.

Appellants sought by this suit to have…