CORNELIUS, Chief Justice.
This is a suit to determine ownership of royalty in lignite produced from fifty-three acres of land in Titus County. The dispute centers around the proper construction of a mineral reservation.
Marshall Hobbs and others, herein called "Hobbs," owned the land prior to 1956. They sold it to O.L. Hale in September of 1956 by deed containing this reservation:
SUBJECT, however, to one-sixteenth (1/16th) non-participating royalty...
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