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47 N.C. 184

Grice v. . Wright

Supreme Court of North Carolina

Decided June 5, 1855

Supreme Court of North Carolina · decided 1855-06-05

ActioN of trespass quaee olausuM eeegit, tried before his Honor Judge Bailey, at Spring Term, 1855, of Eobeson Superior Court. Erom a general lease of the defendant’s lands to one James Grice, for the purpose of making and distilling turpentine, there was a reservation to herself (deft.) of the privilege of using the fan timber.

Decided 1855-06-05

Battle, J.

¶1 We cannot perceive any reason for dpubting the correctness of the opinion expressed by his Honor in the court below. The exception of the trees fit for tun timber did not embrace all the trees fit for turpentine, and, therefore, was not repugnant to the grant in the lease under which the plaintiff claimed. The cases of Robinson v. Gee, 4 Ire. Rep. 186, and Whitted v. Smith, ante 36, are both cases in which the deeds contained exceptions as much, if not more, liable to objection than this, and yet no doubt was expressed as to their sufficiency, and the only questions raised on them were as to their extent: An exception necessarily excludes from a grant a part of the whole of what would otherwise be contained in it, and that is all the effect it has in this case.

¶2 Pee Oujbiam. Judgment affirmed.

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