Chandler v. Rider
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on the covenants of seisin and against incumbrances in a deed of real estate executed by Adam C. Rider to the plaintiff. Trial in the superior court, without a jury, before Putnam, J., who ruled that the plaintiff was not entitled to recover on the case which is stated in the opinion, and gave judgment for the defendant. The plaintiff alleged exceptions.
1Opinion of the CourtAmes, J.
The plaintiff’s claim is founded upon the assumption that a deed of the land from Nancy Swift and Lydia S. Wright to Adam C. Rider, his grantor, conveyed no valid and *269legal title; and that, for that reason, the defendant, as heir at law of Adam C. Rider, is liable on the covenant of seisin, and the covenant against incumbrances, contained in said Riders deed to the plaintiff. Whether enough is disclosed in the case, even upon that assumption, to show a breach of either of those covenants, is a question that we have not had occasion to consider.
The question arises upon the following state of…
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