Gottfried v. Johnson

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• holding that a reservation of “minerals” to the grantor in the deed in question did not reserve petroleum because petroleum was not considered a mineral in the general legal and commercial usage of the word at the time and in the vicinity of the conveyance
• directing courts to construe contracts by their plain terms as it would be construed by the parties themselves and the “mass of mankind”

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