Meigs v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Appeal, No. 293, Jan. T., 1894, by defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1892, No. 186, on bill in equity. Bill in equity for injunction. The case was referred to J. Edward Carpenter, Esq., as examiner and master, who reported the facts substantially as follows : W. N. French owned certain real estate, including the lots of plaintiff and defendant, bounded by Locust, Seventeenth and Latimer streets, in the city of Philadelphia.
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Appeal, No. 293, Jan. T., 1894, by defendant, from decree of C. P. No. 2, Phila. Co., Sept. T., 1892, No. 186, on bill in equity. Bill in equity for injunction. The case was referred to J. Edward Carpenter, Esq., as examiner and master, who reported the facts substantially as follows : W. N. French owned certain real estate, including the lots of plaintiff and defendant, bounded by Locust, Seventeenth and Latimer streets, in the city of Philadelphia. On April 29, 1863, he conveyed to W. T. Hildeburn a portion thereof, described as follows: “ All that brick messuage and lot or piece of ground…
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Mr. Justice McCollum,
This case turns on the construction of the reservation in the deed from French to Hildeburn. The appellee has succeeded to the rights of the grantee in that deed and the appellant to the rights of the grantor. In construing' a deed it is proper and sometimes necessary to consider the circumstances under which it was made for the purpose of ascertaining the intention of the parties: Cox v. Freedly, 33 Pa. 124, and Miner’s Appeal, 61 Pa. 283. In delivering the opinion of this court in Lacy v. Green, 84 Pa. 514, Woodward, J., said: “ Where the *601meaning of 'an…
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