Spooner v. Menard

The parties disagree over the meaning of a reservation in a deed. The facts are not in dispute and are contained in an agreed statement. The plaintiff conveyed his farm to the defendants in 1955, reserving a dwelling house and small plot of land in one corner of the farm for his own use. The sole issue in the chancery proceeding below was the construction of the language of this reservation :

“Reserving unto myself and my heirs and assigns, two acres, more or less, with small dwelling house thereon, situated in the south west corner of the land hereby conveyed and is 500 feet wide on the…