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Texas Supreme Court Rejects “Rigid Rules” of Deed Construction

By Charles Sartain on March 25, 2020
Posted in Land Titles, Title Issues

The question for the Texas Supreme Court in Piranha Partners et al. v. Joe B. Neuhoff et al. was whether an assignment of an overriding royalty in minerals conveyed the override only in production from the identified well (the B #1-28), in production from any well drilled on the identified land (NW/4, Section 28)…

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