Riggins v. Post

In our former opinion, we held that the contract sued on was not ambiguous. The fourth paragraph reads as follows:

"Each party to furnish to the other complete abstracts of title to each tract of land brought down to date, and each abstract shall show a good record title thereto vested in the grantor in said deeds of conveyance."

Looking to this paragraph alone, the instrument is certainly not ambiguous.

"A good record title, in the absence of any words of limitation, means that the proper records must show an unincumbered, fee-simple title; in other words, `the legal estate in fee, free and…