McIntire v. Glad Heart Properties

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• recognizing that courts favor a holistic and harmonizing approach and reject mechanical rules of construction
• recognizing that “[m]ineral deeds employing double fractions give rise to disputes about whether the instrument creates a fixed (‘fractional’) royalty or a floating (‘fraction of’) royalty”
• explaining that a fee simple interest in land includes both the entire surface estate and the entire mineral estate
• explaining that a fee simple interest in land includes both the entire surface estate and the entire mineral estate
• explaining that “apparent inconsistencies or contradictions must be harmonized, to the extent possible, by construing the instrument as a whole”
• explaining that “apparent inconsistencies or contradictions must be harmonized, to the extent possible, by construing the instrument as a whole”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).