Bethell v. Bethell

This case is here for the second time. On the former appeal, Bethell v. Bethell, 54 Ind. 428 (23 Am. R. 650), it was decided that the deed upon which the action is-founded did not contain a covenant of seizin j that the laws of the State of Missouri, where the land is situate, could not. extend into this State so as to incorporate covenants in the deed, and that the law of the place of the contract governs the courts in determining the question whether or not the deed contains covenants of warranty or seizin.

The law of the case, so far as concerns this point, is made-by the decision on the…