Reed v. Hamilton

Reed sued Hamilton on the covenant of warranty and séizure in a deed of lands, averring a breach thereof, and that said lands were uncultivated and had never been in the actual possession of the plaintiff.

Answer, admitting the execution of the deed, and that the defendant had no legal title to the lands at the execution of said deed, nor at the commencement of the suit, and that the plaintiff has sustained nominal damages, and offer to confess j udgment for one dollar and costs; but as to any further damage, the defendant pleaded that before the making of the deed to the plaintiff, one Beamer…