Meade v. N. & W. R. R.

Citations

• 89 Va. 296
• 15 S.E. 497
• 1892 Va. LEXIS 98

Syllabus

<p>1. Reformation of Deeds—Verbal agreements.—A deed granting right of way will not be reformed or cancelled because the parties had verbally agreed that a trestle with a passway under it should be erected across a ravine on grantor’s land, which agreement was not inserted because the parties deemed its insertion unnecessary. S. V. S. Jl. Co. v. Dunlop, 86 Va. 846.</p> <p>2. Agents-—Unauthorized statements.—Where the attorney dictating the deed and the right-of-way agent said to grantor that it was unnecessary to insert the verbal agreement, they having no authority to bind the grantee in the premises, such statement is no ground for cancelling the deed.</p>