Legal Opinion

O'Kane v. Kiser

Indiana Supreme Court

Decided November 15, 1865PublishedCited by 4 opinions

APPEAL from the Warren Circuit Court.

1Opinion of the CourtErazer, C. J.

The questions in this case are: 1. Whether where a promissory note has heen given for the jiurchase money of land, and a title-bond taken conditioned for the conveyance of the land, with an unincumbered'title, on the same day that the note becomes due, a suit can be maintained on the note, if a deed be tendered, though the land is incumbered by a mortgage not due, the obligor being solvent? 2. Whether parol evidence is admissible to show knowledge by the purchaser, when the contract was made, that the mortgage incumbrance would not be due at the time the deed was required to be made to him ?…

2Cases cited1 opinion

  1. McCulloch v. DawsonIndiana Supreme Court · 1849

3Cited by4 opinions

  1. Vawter v. BaconIndiana Supreme Court · 1882
  2. Hickman v. RaylIndiana Supreme Court · 1877
  3. Hiatt v. YerginIndiana Court of Appeals · 1972
  4. Hiatt v. YerginIndiana Court of Appeals · 1972

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