Grayson-McLeod Lumber Co. v. Duke

The principal question involved in this case is the same as that decided in the case of Bodcaw Lumber Co. v. Goode, ante, p. 48, concerning the separate sale and conveyance of land excepting mineral rights. There is, however, in the present case an additional question to be decided with reference to the effect of the statute of limitations in bar of excepted mineral rights.

Appellant owned the land involved, and conveyed it on April 1,1905, by warranty deed, to one Key, the deed containing in the granting clause an exception in the following language:

“Reserving, however, all coal, oil and…