Jenkins Co. v. Ramey

VAN SANT, Commissioner.

The action was instituted by appellees against appellant to try title to the mineral rights in and under a small boundary of real estate upon which appellant’s lessee has produced and is now operating a gas well. The Chancellor rendered judgment for appellees who claim under an exception contained in a deed executed by their ancestor, John Ramey, to Nathan Bolen and Mary J. Bolen, on March 13, 1907.

The deed containing the exception conveyed one hundred fifty acres of land, the exception being in the following words, to-wit: “With the exception of all the mineral rites…