Supreme Court of Pennsylvania July 1, 1857 (Wilson v. Gibbs)

The opinion of the court was delivered by .

Lowrie, J.

This is a simple question of interpretation, and it is a very simple one if we take it up rightly. It is not so much the mere conveyance of the rent, as the transaction, that we are to interpret. In other words, we must interpret the conveyance in the light of the circumstances on which it was founded, and which it was intended to change.