Is a plaintiff entitled to the same amount of damages as a defendant?

Defendant argues the trial court erred by applying Civil Code section 1069 in plaintiffs' favor. That section provides: A grant is to be interpreted in favor of the grantee, except that a reservation in any grant, and every grant by a public officer or body, as such, to a private party, is to be interpreted in favor of the grantor. The trial court found that because the rights at issue derive from the deed from plaintiffs' grandparents, the reservations should be interpreted in plaintiffs' favor. We review this question of statutory interpretation de novo. (Bruns v. E-Commerce Exchange, Inc. (2011) 51 Cal.4th 717, 724.)