Manwaring v. Powell

In October, 1865, complainant received, from Charles L. Moody and Lucy his wife a mortgage on certain lands in Kent county, conditioned for the payment of four hundred dollars in two years from date with interest. Moody then owned the lands, but on the sixth day of September, 1866, he sold the same to Silas Powell for the sum of one thousand five hundred dollars, all but four hundred of which was paid. The deed given to Powell was a warranty deed, containing a covenant against incumbrances, except the mortgage to complainant, and the covenant of quiet possession was made “subject to said…