Rockafeller v. Village of Arlington

Citations

• 91 Ill. 375

Syllabus

<p>Conveyance—reservation—sufficiency of description. Where the owner of a tract of land had laid out a block thereon subdivided into lots, placing stones at the corners of the block, and had sold two of the lots in the block, and after possession taken by the purchaser, conveyed the whole tract, “excepting five lots in first block and second lot in second block, south of the railroad and plank road, as the same shall be hereafter subdivided into village lots ” by the grantee or his assigns, “said lots having been heretofore sold by ” said grantor, it was held, that the exception in the deed was not void for uncertainty, and that the title to lots previously sold did not pass by the deed.</p>