Brush v. Rothschild
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
Appeal by the plaintiff, Henrietta G. Brush, from a judgment of the Supreme Court in favor of the defendant, entered in the office of the clerk of the county of Suffolk on the 24th day of November, 1917, upon the verdict of a jury rendered by direction of the court.
1Opinion of the Court
Mills, J.:
The action was brought to recover damages for the alleged breach of the covenant of seizin contained in a deed by the defendant to the plaintiff of certain lands in Suffolk county, dated February 29,1912, the full consideration price of $9,000, with interest, being demanded as damages.
The material undisputed facts are the following:
The tract purported to be conveyed by the deed, which contains about one hundred acres, consists of parts of lots Nos. 18, 19 and 20 of the Brookfield partition, by which Brookfield parish (so called) in the town of Brookhaven, Suffolk county, was…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Watkins v. . ReynoldsNew York Court of Appeals · 1890
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