Bird v. . Cruse

Citations

• 19 S.E. 276
• 114 N.C. 435

Syllabus

<p>Deed — Construction of Reservation in Deed.</p> <p>A widow convoyed the portion of a tract of land allotted to hev.as dower by a deed purporting .to be in fee-simple; the guardian of the heir, 1 having procured an order of Court for the purpose, sold and executed a deed to the purchaser for the entire tract, embracing the dower portion, but with a reservation as follows: “Reserving the right of dower of the widow, etc., which has heretofore been sold and conveyed”: Held, that the reservation in the deed by the guardian of the doner right “already conveyed” was a reservation only of what interest the widow had legally conveyed and was not a reservation of the fee-simple in the dower portion.</p>