Erskine v. Wilson

The opinion of the court was delivered by

Mr. Justice McGowan.

This was an action for an alleged *199breach of a covenant of warranty in a deed of land sold and conveyed by the defendant to the plaintiff. It appears that the defendant Wilson had purchased the tract of land in question at public sale a short time before August 19, 1883; and on that day, after some negotiation upon the subject, Erskine purchased the same tract of land from him, just as he had bought it, not by the acre but in gross, for $675, and within a few days thereafter delivered to him a deed, which described the land as…