Richmond v. Ames
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract, for breach of the covenants in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff of land in Worcester. Writ dated June 12, 1893. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Hopkins, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows.
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Contract, for breach of the covenants in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff of land in Worcester. Writ dated June 12, 1893. Trial in the Superior Court, without a jury, before Hopkins, J., who reported the case for the determination of this court, in substance as follows. On April 1, 1873, Isaac Davis conveyed to the defendant a tract of land described as follows: “A certain lot or parcel of land, with the buildings thereon, situated on the easterly side of Main Street in said city of Worcester, and with the privileges and appurtenances thereto belonging, bounded and described as…
1Opinion of the CourtField, C. J.
The report of this case is in some respects too meagre to present the questions of law involved in it in a satisfactory manner. We do not know from the report whether the $2,587.86 which the plaintiff “ had to pay in damages ” “ in order to remove so .much of the encumbrance as is affected by the cases of Starkie and Green against Richmond,” was the sum of the damages assessed in those cases, if any damages were assessed, or whether it was a sum agreed upon by the parties to those suits. We do not know whether the court in the present case found that this was a reasonable sum to be paid, or…
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