SPOONER v. MENARD

No. 577.

196 A.2d 510 (1963)

Scott SPOONER v. Lucien H. MENARD and Delia M. Menard.

Supreme Court of Vermont.

December 3, 1963.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Arthur A. Heald, St. Albans, for plaintiff.

John Mulvey, St. Albans, for defendants.

Before HULBURD, C. J., and HOLDEN, SHANGRAW, BARNEY and SMITH, JJ.


BARNEY, Justice.

The parties disagree over the meaning of a reservation in a deed. The facts are not in dispute and are contained in an agreed statement. The plaintiff conveyed his farm to the defendants in 1955 reserving a dwelling house and small plot of land in one corner of the farm for his own use. The sole issue in the chancery proceeding below was the construction of the language of this reservation:

Reserving unto myself and my heirs and assigns,...

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