Allen v. Green

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• allowing extrinsic evidence when language in a deed “is of doubtful import, admits of being understood in more -9- than one way, admits of two or more meanings, or refers to two or more things at the same time”
• “[T]he words [describing the property conveyed] admit of two different meanings and are thus ambiguous.”
• “Here, the ambiguity consisted in uncertainty concerning the subject matter to which the language was intended to apply.”
• express reservation of right to remove building from land conveyed

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).