Smith v. Lewis
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action for breach of covenant. By the contract the defendant covenanted to convey to the plaintiff, on the first day of April, 1852, certain real estate in the town of Suffield, and to deliver to him certain personal property on the premises; the plaintiff covenanting concurrently to convey to the defendant, free from incumbrance, certain real estate situated in the town of Windsor, and pay him $2,000 in cash, and the price of the personal property, to be determined in a…
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Action for breach of covenant. By the contract the defendant covenanted to convey to the plaintiff, on the first day of April, 1852, certain real estate in the town of Suffield, and to deliver to him certain personal property on the premises; the plaintiff covenanting concurrently to convey to the defendant, free from incumbrance, certain real estate situated in the town of Windsor, and pay him $2,000 in cash, and the price of the personal property, to be determined in a mode provided by the contract. The part of the declaration on which the principal question in the case ai’ose, was as…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, C. J.
On the argument of this writ of error, we have confined the counsel to those questions which were not decided by us in this case when it was presented at a former term for our advice as to what judgment ought to be rendered on the facts found in the superior court. (24 Conn., 624.) So far as this case is concerned, the points on which we then certified our opinion to that court, and in accordance with which the judgment was rendered which is now sought to be reversed, must be deemed to have been definitely decided. There was then an opportunity to argue them fully and they were carefully…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Smith v. LewisSupreme Court of Connecticut · 1856
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