Legal Opinion

Hathaway v. Larrabee

Supreme Judicial Court of Maine

Decided June 15, 1847PublishedCited by 2 opinions

The action was covenant broken on the covenant against incumbrances in the deed of the defendant to the plaintiff, dated September 20, 1839, and recorded September 21, 1839. Buck and Kidder brought a suit against Nathaniel French, Joseph Richards and Henry Burgess, and a return was made thereon by a deputy sheriff in the following terms: — “Penobscot, December 28, 1836, at eleven o’clock A. M., I have attached all the right, title and interest, the defendant has in and to…

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The action was covenant broken on the covenant against incumbrances in the deed of the defendant to the plaintiff, dated September 20, 1839, and recorded September 21, 1839. Buck and Kidder brought a suit against Nathaniel French, Joseph Richards and Henry Burgess, and a return was made thereon by a deputy sheriff in the following terms: — “Penobscot, December 28, 1836, at eleven o’clock A. M., I have attached all the right, title and interest, the defendant has in and to any real estate in the county of Penobscot. e< H. Winslow, Deputy Sheriff.” Judgment was recovered, and a levy made upon…

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Shepi.ey J

The suit is upon a covenant of warranty in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff, made on Sept. 20, 1839, conveying a lot of land situated on the corner made by Penobscot and Pine streets, in the city of Bangor. The lot was conveyed by Harvey Reed to Nathaniel French on Dec. 9, 1836. French conveyed the same on May 25, 1837, to John S. Ayer, from whom the defendant derived his title.

Charles Buck and Camillus Kidder, commenced a suit against Nathaniel French, Joseph Richards and Henry Burgess, on Dec. 28, 1836; and on that day a deputy of…

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