Summaries of Civil Opinions and Published Criminal Opinions Issued - Week of May 14, 2012

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Farm & Ranch Investors, Ltd. v. Titan Operating, L.L.C., No. 02-11-00217-CV  (May 17, 2012)  (Gabriel, J., joined by Livingston, C.J., and Gardner, J.).

Held: Restriction recorded in deed records that says, “All mineral rights shall belong and shall continue to belong to” the owner was not an effective reservation of mineral rights. Nor did the statement in later deeds that said “[t]his conveyance is made subject to any and all easements, restrictions, and mineral reservations affecting said property that are filed for record” read the mineral rights restriction in to the deed to make it an effective reservation of mineral rights. Thus, the deeds conveyed the entire estate.

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