As we read the complaint, no claim is made in it for any damages resulting from permitting logs to lie-on the part of lots 1 and 2 of section 15, township 24 north,
“This right of rafting and boomage does not, however, include any right to allow logs to remain on this strip for a considerable period after they shall have lodged and the water has receded; nor the right to go 'on and remove the logs after they shall have so remained there, without paying for the injury occasioned by such remaining and subsequent removal.
“You are to consider whether the defendant in any or all of the years 1906, 1901, 1908, 1909 and 1910, allowed its logs to lodge and remain upon the one-rod strip longer than was reasonably necessary for their removal, . . . and in case you find that it did, then you should return a verdict in favor of the plaintiffs for the amount of such damage.”
The defendant excepted to each of these paragraphs of the charge. We find it difficult to ascertain from the evidence to what extent logs were permitted to remain on plaintiffs’
In construing deeds, as in construing other instruments, the courts aim to arrive at the intention of the parties. ■Where there is no ambiguity in the language used, the intent must be arrived at from such language. Chicago, M. & St. P. R. Co. v. H. W. Wright L. Co.
An easement is something quite different from a fee or a limited fee. In the one case title does not pass, but only a right of use or privilege in the land of another. In the other -cases the title does pass even though the use be limited. The .granting clause in this deed contains the most appropriate language that could be devised by expert conveyancers to convey a fee, except as it may be modified by the words “for the purpose of rafting and boomage.” The habendum clause is the one usually found in common-law forms of warranty ■deeds, as is the covenant of warranty. If the quoted words grant an easement only, then they are repugnant to the preceding words of grant contained in the deed, as well as to what follows. The grant of a fee may be coupled with a restriction of the right of use. This being so, a deed such as ■the one before us can be construed so as to give effect to every
The following cases hold that a grant of land coupled with a restriction as to use conveys the fee and not a mere easement in the thing granted: Messer v. Oestreich,
Had the provision restricting the' use to which the strip conveyed might be put been followed by a reverter clause in case the land was put to different use, a condition subsequent would or at least might have been created. Lawe v. Hyde,
Under some circumstances restrictions or provisions in a deed will be held to create a condition subsequent without a reverter clause. Horner v. C., M. & St. P. R. Co.
There is absolutely nothing in the record here to show that ■there was any intention to create a condition subsequent, aside from the inference that should be drawn from the recital that the land was to be used for rafting and boomage purposes. This language is in itself entirely inadequate to .create such a condition. Brugman v. Noyes,
Circumstances might arise where the strip of land in question might be put to some use that would materially interfere with the use and enjoyment by the plaintiffs of the adjoining land which they own. In such a ease it might well be that •a court of equity would enjoin such use and that the damages resulting therefrom would be recoverable. The question is not before us. The Boom Company had the right to permit logs to lie on this strip as long as it desired, and so did the defendant. The Boom Company is the owner of at least a limited fee in this strip of land with the privileges and appurtenances belonging thereto, and plaintiffs are not entitled to collect any damages because logs were permitted to lie there■on. The charge of the court was erroneous and the judgment must be reversed.
By the Court. — Judgment reversed, and cause remanded for a new trial.
