Cates v. Cates

The appellant and her husband, Prior Cates, on the 9th day of May, 1876, executed to the appellees a general deed of warranty, in the statutory form, and describing the lands of which the appellant now seeks partition in her right as the widow of said Prior Cates.

Said deed, in the premises or granting clause, is without ambiguity, limitation, exception or reservation, but immediately following the description is an exception and a reservation in these words: “The grantor, Prior *273Cates, hereby expressly excepts and reserves from this grant all the estate in said lands, and the use and…