Crow v. Dallas County

How courts have described this case

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• finding that a conveyance was for fee simple because the granting clause did “not contain language limiting the interests conveyed . . . nor d[id] it reference an easement”
• finding persuasive that the descriptions of the conveyed parcels referenced “a ‘strip of land,’ and two ‘tracts of land’” (citation omitted)
• ‘‘For Plaintiff Bird Bay, the first issue — -whether the railroad obtained an easement or a fee simple estate — is dispositive.”
• “Florida courts have [ ] admitted separate and contemporaneous deeds or instruments in order to discern the real intent of an otherwise ambiguous instrument.”
• “The language ‘through the lands of the grantor’ in the deed merely describes the location of the strip of land conveyed to [the railroad] and does not define or characterize the nature of the property interest conveyed to [the railroad].”
• “The language ‘through the land of the grantor’ in the deed merely describes the location of the strip of land conveyed to [the railroad] and does not define or characterize the nature of the property interest conveyed to [the railroad].”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).