Douglas v. Medical Investors, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• holding “[a]n easement is ... not an estate in lands in the usual sense”
• noting “the well established principle that when the granting clause in a deed conveys a fee simple title it cannot be reduced or cut down by subsequent language in the instrument”
• “An easement is a right which one person has to use the land of another for a specific purpose and gives no title to the land on which the servitude is imposed. An easement is therefore not an estate in lands in the usual sense.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).