ETHRIDGE, Chief Justice.
This case involves the mineral-royalty distinction, and principally the question of whether a 1944 deed from Carl F. Griffith and wife to Thomas O. Payne conveyed a mineral interest including the executive right to lease, or simply a nonparticipating royalty. The Chancery Court of Jefferson Davis County held that it was a conveyance of a non-participating royalty, without the leasing right. We affirm.
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