KINSER, Justice.
In this appeal, we address the common law rule that, in a deed, a reservation or exception in favor of a stranger to the instrument does not create in the stranger any right or interest in the property being conveyed. The circuit court relied on this rule to sustain demurrers to a bill of complaint seeking a declaratory judgment that a reservation in favor of a stranger to a deed created a life estate for the benefit of the stranger. Since this rule...
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