Legal Opinion
Isaacs v. Schmuck
New York Court of Appeals
Decided May 3, 1927PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Cardozo, Ch. J.
Plaintiff and defendant made a contract for the purchase and sale of real property located at Lawrence, Nassau county, New York. The sale was to be subject to the restrictions of a zoning ordinance, and to building encroachments, if any, upon street or highway. With those exceptions the title was to be free of all incumbrances. The buyer, searching the title, found restrictive covenants, running with the land, and limiting its use. The seller had acquired title from one Lawrence in April, 1895, by a deed which provided in the habendum that the title of the grantee, his heirs…
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