Hindman v. Farren

Opinion by

Mr. Justice Horace Stern,

This case turns on the interpretation to be given to two clauses — one in a lease and one in a deed. Plaintiff would have the lease construed from a practical rather than a literal standpoint; defendants and additional defendant, while opposing this, seels that same lsind of construction in the case of the deed. We think it is the method which should be adopted as to both instruments, for, where there is any doubt or ambiguity as to the meaning of the covenants in a contract or the terms of a grant, they should “receive a reasonable construction, and one…