The Texas Supreme Court’s 2023 decision in Van Dyke v. Navigator Group, 668 S.W.3d 353 (Tex. 2023), touched off a wave of cases (and uncertainty) about how courts should read deeds of that certain “vintage” that used double fractions involving 1/8. Last month the Court issued its opinion in Clifton v. Johnson, No. 23-0671, 2026 Tex. LEXIS 211 (Tex. Mar. 13, 2026), and it’s the most important opinion on the issue since Van Dyke itself.