Delano v. Luedinghaus

Citations

• 70 Wash. 573
• 127 P. 197
• 1912 Wash. LEXIS 1083

Syllabus

<p>Deeds — Exceptions—Construction and Operation. Where grantors owned timber land beyond the granted land, and a sawmill to which the timber must be brought across the land conveyed, a reservation in the deed “excepting a strip of land thirty feet wide . .. for road purposes,” must be reasonably construed as for the benefit of the grantor; and the use of a portion of the strip for a logging road, retaining the right of ingress and egress to the grantees, is not inconsistent with the terms of the exception clause, in view of the attendant facts and circumstances.</p>