Court Opinion

ID: 9532808
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 04:25:00.707894+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:28:50.708940
License: Public Domain

STEVENS, Superior Court Judge
(concurring) .
It is my opinion that this record presents factual matters which are so clear that the court need not engage in a discussion of legal presumptions and rules of construction on abandonment. In my opinion it is clear that Converse did not intend to convey any part of the north alley to Torrey or to Hunter, and that in addition Converse did intend to deed and did effectively deed the same to Pearce. It is my opinion that this cause can be decided by following the following principles. In the Ohio Court of Appeals, case of Krzewinski v. Eaton Homes, Inc., 108 Ohio App. 175, 161 N.E. 2d 88 (1958) at page 90 of the opinion I find the following:
“The general rule, with respect to the sale of property by lot from a recorded plat, is stated in III American Law of Property, Section 12.103 (p. 406) to be as follows:
“ ‘When land is conveyed as a unit, or as a part of a unit, of a recorded plat, the plat becomes as much a part of the description as would be the case if copied into the instrument or if the data furnished by it was set out in full.’ ”
The Supreme Court of Iowa in the case of Snieders v. Brantsen, 245 Iowa 81, 60 N.W.2d 779 (1953), at page 781 quotes earlier authority as follows:
“ * * * [I]t is said to be ‘a well-settled principle that when lands are granted according to the official plat * * * the plat itself * * * becomes a part of the grant or deed by which they are conveyed, and controls, so far as limits are concerned *
*20These principles are consistent with the opinion in the case of McNeil v. Attaway, 87 Ariz. 103, 348 P.2d 301 (1960).
The plaintiffs Torrey and Hunter must stand on the strength of their title and not on the weakness of the Pearce title. Berger v. Bhend, 79 Ariz. 173, 285 P.2d 751 (1955). In this case the strength is with Pearce and the weakness is with Torrey and Hunter.
I concur in the result.