Hazen v. Mathews
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for alleged breach of a covenant against incumbrances in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff dated August 8,1897, conveying a lot numbered 91 on a certain plan, dated. November 5, 1868, of land at Chester Hill, a portion of Mount Vernon, in the State of New York. Writ dated May 14, 1900. At the trial in the Superior Court Mason, C. J. at the close of the plaintiff’s case ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions.
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Contract for alleged breach of a covenant against incumbrances in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff dated August 8,1897, conveying a lot numbered 91 on a certain plan, dated. November 5, 1868, of land at Chester Hill, a portion of Mount Vernon, in the State of New York. Writ dated May 14, 1900. At the trial in the Superior Court Mason, C. J. at the close of the plaintiff’s case ordered a verdict for the defendant; and the plaintiff alleged exceptions. It appeared at the trial, that the southerly line of "Mount Vernon is the northerly line of the city of New York, that Mount Vernon is…
1Opinion of the CourtLoring, J.
In 1866, one Crary bought of Gilbert and Peter Shute a farm containing some fifty-one acres ; and at some time not stated in the bill of exceptions he purchased another tract lying north of the Shute farm, “ known as the Straub purchase.” On November 5, 1868, he filed in the office of the Register of Westchester County the accompanying plan, in which both parcels are laid out in building lots fronting on streets shown on the plan. On July 27, 1868, he sold to one McDougal lots 96 and *390104, and to one Komp lot 97, referring to a map to be recorded, and they are shown on the plan recorded in…
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