Sherwood v. Landon
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Berrien. (A. J. Smith, J.) Assumpsit. Plaintiff brings error.' A covenant of seizin is broken, if at all, at the time it is made: 3 Washb. R. P. 649 ; 4 Kent’s Com. 47; 1 Sm. Lead. Cas. (5th Am. ed.) 174; 2 Wait’s A. & D. 375 ; Heath v. Whidden 24 Me. 383; Pierce v. Johnson 4 Yt. 253; Richardson v. Dorr 5 Yt. 9; Mitchell v. Warner 5 Conn. 497 ; Ciarle v. Swift 3 Met. 390; Lot v. Thomas 2 N. J. L. 407; Garter v. Denman 3 Zab. 270; Grist v. Hodges 3 Dev.
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Error to Berrien. (A. J. Smith, J.) Assumpsit. Plaintiff brings error.' A covenant of seizin is broken, if at all, at the time it is made: 3 Washb. R. P. 649 ; 4 Kent’s Com. 47; 1 Sm. Lead. Cas. (5th Am. ed.) 174; 2 Wait’s A. & D. 375 ; Heath v. Whidden 24 Me. 383; Pierce v. Johnson 4 Yt. 253; Richardson v. Dorr 5 Yt. 9; Mitchell v. Warner 5 Conn. 497 ; Ciarle v. Swift 3 Met. 390; Lot v. Thomas 2 N. J. L. 407; Garter v. Denman 3 Zab. 270; Grist v. Hodges 3 Dev. L. 200; South v. Hoy 8 T. B. Mon. 90; Ross v. Turner 2 Ark. 132; Pillsburyv. Mitchell 5 Wis. 21; Beth-ell v. Bethell 54 Ind. 428 ;…
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
On the 27th day of July, 1871, the plaintiff commenced suit in the circuit court for the county of Berrien by filing a declaration in a plea of trespass on the case upon promises as follows :
“ Eor that the defendants, to wit, on the sixteenth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, to wit, at our said county of Berrien, by their deeds of that date duly executed, acknowledged and delivered, and herein now shown, in consideration of the sum of twenty-six hundred dollars paid to the defendants by said plaintiff, convey min the plaintiff the following-described real estate situated in…
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