Legal Opinion
Robertson v. Webster
Court of Appeals of Georgia
Decided March 18, 1949No. 32384PublishedCited by 5 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtTownsend, J.
(After stating the foregoing facts.) The defendants readily grant that this action might have been maintained had Beaube, the present owner of the land, himself paid the assessments' and brought the action in his own name. They contend, however, that since a covenant of warranty runs with the land, it passed by assignment into the hands of the present owner, and that the plaintiffs therefore have no right of action. If the petition alleged no more than this, we would be in complete accord, since the warranty certainly ran with the land. See Code, §§ 29-301, 29-303.
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