Hamlin v. Allen

Title in this case is claimed under a deed from the executors of the will of one Barnabas B. Nye, to one Allen and .others, of a tract of land through which ran a public road. The description in the granting clause includes the road, and -at the end of the description is the expression, “ with the exception of the road from wall to wall.” Allen subsequently acquired the shares of his co-tenants by deeds in which the same description of the land was employed, the road being mentioned in two or. three deeds in the phrase, “ with the exception of the wharf road,” and in the third deed in the…