State Ex Rel. Oklahoma Planning & Resources Board v. Smith

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• holding, as a matter of law, that reasonable time within which to remove timber had expired after eighteen years, as well as cataloging cases to similar effect
• observing that “it has been widely held that a grant or reservation of timber will not be construed as giving a perpetual right, unless it is plainly manifest that such was the intent of the parties, since such rights are extremely burdensome,” as well as cataloging cases to this effect
• “To hold ... that a separate estate in timber created by grant creates merely a terminable estate ... but that a separate estate in timber created by exception or reservation creates a fee simple estate, or a perpetual right ..., would be to make a distinction without basis in law or logie[.]”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).