105 Ind. App. 344 - Claridge v. Phelps’s Empirical Analysis
1937
Citation profile
23 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 25 later decisions — most recently November 2015 · most notably Enderle v. Sharman (1981), Tazian v. Cline (1997)
23 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Doren v. Gillum · Adams v. Merrill · Prior v. Quackenbush · Goodpaster v. Leathers · Marsh v. Morris
Most-quoted passages
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“[One of the most important rules in the construction of deeds is so to construe them that no part shall be rejected. The object of all construction is to ascertain the intent of the parties and it must have been their intent to have some meaning in every part. It never could be a man's intent to contradict himself; therefore we should lean to such a construction as reconciles the different parts, and reject a construction which leads to a contradiction ...”
5 later decisions quote this exact passagee.g. Tazian v. Cline · Owens v. Tergeson“In addition, the deed also provides: THIS INDENTURE WITNESSETH, that Travis D. Scales and Sarah E. Scales, his wife, of Warrick County, in the State of Indiana, CONVEY AND WARRANT, to the State of Indiana, for the sum of One Dollar ($1.00) and other considerations hereinafter set out, the following described real estate, in Warrick County It further provides that: As the sole consideration, except the nominal consideration of One Dollar ($1.00) it is agreed by the grantee that it will cause to be beautified the real estate herein conveyed from time to time, and that it will begin immediate beautification of the real estate herein conveyed, possession of which is not retained by the grantors herein by constructing a lake on the north side of said real estate which shall extend practically the full width thereof from east to west, and also by cleaning and clearing the unsightly places and planting trees and shrubs. Said planting and beautification to include all of the real estate herein released. And the grantee further agrees that said real estate shall be known as the “Dr. T.D. and Emma Hart Scales Park” and shall be maintained at all times by said grantee for the benefit of the public as a place of recreation.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
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