Surles v. Milikin
Supreme Court of Georgia
Equitable petition. Before Judge Sweat. Wayne superior court. May term, 1895.
1Opinion of the Court
Lumpkin, Justice.
This case turned entirely upon the construction to be given a timber lease made August 4, 1890, the material portions of which are quoted in the head-note. It appears that the main portions of the instrument were in print, and *486that before the lessor would agree to sign it, he required an interlineation in ink of the words, “and shall end after the year 1893.”
It is a well settled rule, in construing contracts, such, for instance, as policies of insurance, the main portions of which are printed and the special or particular portions adapting it to the precise agreement of the…
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