Winter v. Payne

Citations

• 33 Fla. 470

Syllabus

<p>1. Where the owner of a tract of land makes a town plat of it-with spaces for roads or streets laid out thereon and conveys lots with reference to, ana bounded by such roads or streets, he thereby dedicates the said roads or streets to public use as such, and the grantees in the conveyances acquire the right to have said roads or strei ts kept open for the benefit of light and air, as well as passageways.</p> <p>2. Where a street, although laid off on a town plat in a certain course, is opened up by the owner on the ground in a course varying1 from the exact lines as indicated on the plat, and the street as opened up on the ground is thrown open to public use as a street before lots abutting oh the same are conveyed by the owner, the descriptions in deeds subsequently made and referring to the street as a boundary will relate to the street as opened up on the ground and used at the time such deeds are executed.</p>