Opinion ID: 407620
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Heading: Amount of Timber Involved

Text: 15 By the terms of the reservation clause, appellants have the right to timber now upon the property. Oregon courts have consistently held that the terms all timber or timber reserves only merchantable timber at the time of the deed. See, e.g., Bross v. Peyton, 252 Or. 482, 484, 450 P.2d 760 (1969); Emerson, 223 Or. at 117, 353 P.2d 247; Arbogast v. Pilot Rock Lumber Co., 215 Or. 579, 586, 336 P.2d 329 (1959); Doherty v. Harris Pine Mills, Inc., 211 Or. 378, 420-25, 315 P.2d 566 (1957). Because the district court concluded that Reynolds was the sole owner of the timber, it did not determine the amount of merchantable timber on the property in 1947. On remand, the court shall make this determination. 16 REVERSED and REMANDED.