Read v. Gould
Read v. Gould
Opinion of the Court
(After stating the facts.) The deed from petitioner to defendant, conveying the lands in question, is not set forth in full or in substance in the petition, nor is it exhibited. The sale of the lands by petitioner to defendant is alleged to have been made on or about the 6th day of June, 1904; the date of the agreement is June 6, 1904; and it is impossible for this court to determine from the meager averments of the petition whether the written agreement signed by the defendant, touching the rights of pasturage, etc., was executed prior to the deed, and merged in the deed executed subsequently, or whether the written agreement was executed subsequently to the deed conveying the lands in fee simple, without reservation or exception. But, construing the petition -and the agreement executed by the defendant in the light of the meager averments of the petition, and the language of the agreement itself reciting that the granting of the right to pasturage upon the lands and the privilege of hunting and fishing thereon was a part of the consideration for the sale of the lands, in the absence of special demurrer calling for a more specific statement of the terms of the conveyance of the lands to the defendant and as to the relative time of the execution of that conveyance and the instrument in writing, referred to as an agreement in the petition, we take it that the two
Judgment reversed.
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