Goodman v. Teller
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract on a covenant of warranty to recover the sum of $100 alleged to have been expended by the plaintiff in procuring the registration in the Land Court of the plaintiff’s title to a parcel of real estate numbered 148 on Townsend Street in the part of Boston called Roxbury, which was conveyed to the plaintiff by the defendant by a warranty deed and was alleged not to have given the plaintiff a good title to the property until the title was perfected by such registration…
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Contract on a covenant of warranty to recover the sum of $100 alleged to have been expended by the plaintiff in procuring the registration in the Land Court of the plaintiff’s title to a parcel of real estate numbered 148 on Townsend Street in the part of Boston called Roxbury, which was conveyed to the plaintiff by the defendant by a warranty deed and was alleged not to have given the plaintiff a good title to the property until the title was perfected by such registration in the Land Court. Writ in the Municipal Court of the City of Boston dated October 16, 1917. In the Municipal Court the…
1Opinion of the CourtCrosby, J.
This is an action to recover the expenses incurred in registering in the Land Court the title of a parcel of real estate purchased by the plaintiff from the defendant. The case is before us upon an agreed statement of facts, from which it appears that the real estatp was conveyed to the plaintiff by the defendant by warranty deed, subject to a mortgage thereon for $9,000; that the defendant obtained title to the premises from one Conant by a deed dated June 16, 1906, which recited that the consideration was paid by Ida B. Wyman (the former name of the present defendant) but the granting part…
2Cases cited4 opinions
- Bridge v. WellingtonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1804
- Chenery v. StevensMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1867
- Tibbetts v. LeesonMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1888
- Breed v. OsborneMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1873
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- Kennon v. ShepardMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1920
- Rhoades v. SecundaMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1936