Thornhill v. System Fuels, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that it is the duty of a court to construe an instrument as written
• holding that it is the duty of a court to construe an instrument as written
• case in which Court confronted with complexities of mineral-royalty distinction and interpretation of instruments effecting these interests
• “I for one am not nearly so interested in what the parties intended as in what they said.”
• use of an unaltered \Form R-101\ — identical to the one in the case used sub judice — is generally deemed as having \the effect of conveying a fractional interest in the minerals in place\
• grant of an interest in minerals conveys all not specifically reserved

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).