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EARLE v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER CO.

81-490.

429 So.2d 989 (1983)

Martha Lee EARLE, et al. v. INTERNATIONAL PAPER COMPANY, a Corporation, et al.

Supreme Court of Alabama.

March 25, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Michael Rediker and W. Clark Goodwin of Ritchie & Rediker, Birmingham, Allan R. Chason of Chason & Chason, Bay Minette, Verner F. Chaffin, Athens, Ga., for appellants.

L. Murray Alley and Maibeth J. Porter of Cabaniss, Johnston, Gardner, Dumas & O'Neal, Birmingham, and Norborne C. Stone of Stone, Partin, Granade & Crosby, Bay Minette, for appellee Intern. Paper Co.

Susan Dominick Doughton of Dominick, Fletcher, Yeilding, Acker, Wood & Lloyd, Birmingham, for appellee Birmingham-Southern College.

G. Sage Lyons and J.P. Courtney, III of Lyons, Pipes & Cook, Mobile, for appellee Shell Oil Co.

BEATTY, Justice.

This appeal concerns application of the rule against perpetuities to the mineral interest a grantee was to receive upon expiration of the grantor's interest, which had been reserved for 15 years and so long thereafter as production of minerals continued in paying quantities. We affirm the trial court's dismissal of the complaint, concluding that the reservation clause in the deeds left to the grantee a possibility of reverter, which is not subject...

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