University of Vermont & State Agricultural College v. Ward

I regret that I cannot agree with the majority in the disposition of this case. It is with all diffidence that I find myself unable to reconcile my views with those of my brethren, whose mature opinion cannot fail to impress upon me the high respect which it deserves and the temerity of a dissent from it. Yet my belief in the unsoundness of their conclusion prompts me to state the reasons for my objection.

We have here an instrument in which it is recited that the plaintiff “for and in consideration of the rents, covenants and agreements hereinafter mentioned and - reserved hath granted,…