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What Did the Mineral Deed Convey?

By Charles Sartain on April 9, 2020
Posted in Land Titles, Title Issues

WTX Fund, LLC v. Brown, is Texas mineral deed construction case.

In the same year as that crazy thing happened at Coogan’s Bluff, the Roaches executed a Mineral Conveyance to the Holts. Let’s review the transaction and ask ourselves why – or if – there had to be so many “intentions” clauses in addition to…

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)…

Did This “Deed” Convey Fee Simple or an Easement?

By Charles Sartain on May 3, 2017
Posted in Land Titles, Title Issues

railroadCo-author Chance Decker

BNSF v. Chevron Midcontinent LP et al. asked whether a 1903 deed granted BNSF’s predecessor a strip of land in fee simple absolute or only an easement. The result: BNSF holds only an easement. There’s more to the case than an analysis of particular language in one sui generis contract. What else…

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