Middleton v. Broussard

POPE, Justice.

Louis M. Broussard and others instituted this suit to obtain a judgment construing a deed and declaring what royalty was conveyed by the Broussards’ deed to R. M. Middleton. Plaintiffs are the successors in title of the original grantors, and the defendants, Triphene Middleton and others, are the successors in title of the original grantee, R. M. Middleton. The Broussards executed and delivered the deed in question to Middleton on November 4, 1940. The trial court agreed with the construction of the deed urged by the Middletons and construed the deed as a conveyance of a…