TORBERT, Chief Justice.
This is a deed construction case. The only issue is whether the trial court erred in construing a 1924 deed from J.M. Holliman to the Citizens Bank of Fayette to effect a mineral exception for the benefit of the grantor.
In 1917, the United States granted a land patent for the subject property to William Aldridge; the patent reserved to the United States all the coal in the described property. Aldridge mortgaged the property, without...
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