Rouse v. Strickland

The .sole question is whether the court erred in concluding that the 1936 deed conveyed to Mrs. Ella S. Mann only a life estate in the land described therein as the “4th TRACT,” to wit, the J. T. Mann homeplace.

“Ordinarily, in construing a deed it is the duty of the court to ascertain the intent of the grantor or grantors -a® embodied in the entire instrument, and eaich and every part thereof must be given effect if this can be done 'by any fair or reasonable interpretation.” Davis v. Brown, 241 N.C. 116, 118, 84 S.E. 2d 334, and cases cited; Franklin v. Faulkner, 248 N.C. 656, 659, 104 S.E.…