Ormand Mining Co. v. Gambrill & Melville Mills Co.

Tbe plaintiff bolds under mesne conveyance from one Pinchback, whose deed to the plaintiff’s grantor contains the following reservation: “All the wood and timber is reserved by me,” with the addition that-if the grantee should “divide up the land referred to into lots and begin the erection of any building on any lot, then I shall have no further right to any timber on said lot after any building is begun.” This deed and reservation was before us in Mining Co. v. Cotton Mills, 143 N. C., 307, and we there held that, “'Where land is conveyed in fee, with the exception of the reservation of the…