Reasoner v. Edmundson

Edmundson sued Reasoner, administrator

of Gavin, deceased, in covenant, alleging that Gavin, in his lifetime, December, 1845, conveyed to him a tract of land by deed, with the usual covenants; that the covenants of seizin and right to convey, and of freedom from incumbrance, had been broken; 'that the land, at the time, of his purchase, was covered by a mortgage to one Ezelkiel Morrison, and that said mortgage had been foreclose' and that he, Edmundson, had been evicted, &c.

The defendant pleaded that said covenants had not been broken, but kept; that the premises conveyed were, at the time,…