Legal Opinion

Goff v. Hawks

Court of Appeals of Kentucky

Decided April 6, 1831Published

covenant. Error to the Green Circuit; B ;nj Monroe, Judge. Covenant to convey. Criterion of damages. Assessment of damages. Jury. Fraui. Breach. Proof.

1Opinion of the Court

Judge Underwood,

delivered the opinion of the court.

Hawks instituted fin action of covenant •against Goff, upon a covenant, by which the -latter agreed, after acknowledging by way of recital, that he *342had sold t9 the former,' eighty two and a half acres of land, in Green county, on the waters of Green river, for $>375, that he would “make to the said Hawks a special deed for said eighty two and a half acres of land, on the 24-th day of April, 1818.” For breach, the declaration alleges that Goff did not, on, before, or since the said 24th of April, 1818, make a special deed for said eighty two…

2Cases cited1 opinion

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