McKusick v. Murray

On report. Action of covenant broken on covenants of warranty in a bill of sale dated May 1,1933. The property warranted comprised “an office building, three gasoline pumps and tanks and one kerosene tank and pump, used as a gasoline filling station and located on land now or formerly belonging to Luman C. Shepherd of Dexter.” The defendant pled the general issue and by way of brief statement that if the plaintiff’s title failed it was due solely to his own subsequent fault.

On August 9, 1924, Shepherd leased a vacant lot of land in Dexter for a term of five years to one Prescott at a yearly…