Marino v. Moffa

Citations

• 68 Pa. Super. 621
• 1918 Pa. Super. LEXIS 153

Syllabus

<p>Deeds — Boundaries—Metes and bounds — Monuments—Fence,.</p> <p>Where the owner of a city lot abutting front and back on two streets, and having a house built on both the front and back of the lot, executes two deeds to different persons on the same day for separate portions of the lot, and describes the dividing line between the two divisions of the lot by courses and distances, with 'the added words in one of the deeds “extending in length...... more or less,” a fence extending across tire lot near its middle, of a temporary .nature, and with nothing to indicate that it was intended to divide the lot into definite parcels, will not control the calls in the deed.</p> <p>The words “more or less” have been frequently construed as words of safety and precaution, intended to cover some slight or unimportant inaccuracy, not so gross as to justify a suspicion of wilful deception or mistake amounting to fraud, and of which the purchaser takes the risk as to quantity.</p>