Griswold v. Allen
Supreme Court of Connecticut
This was an action on the covenants of a warranty deed, brought to the superior court for New Haven county. The declaration contained three counts.
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This was an action on the covenants of a warranty deed, brought to the superior court for New Haven county. The declaration contained three counts. In the first count, the plaintiff averred, that on the 15th day of April, 1831, the defendant, being then seized and lawfully possessed in his own right, in fee simple, of a certain piece of land, situated in Meriden, containing about ten acres, bounded westerly on Quinnipiac river, so called, and extending to the center of said river, executed and delivered to the plaintiff, a deed of the southerly part of said piece of land, with a privilege in…
1Opinion of the CourtStorrs, J.
The oqly question made before us, in the argument of 'this case, is, as to the extent of the subject matter embraced in the covenants of the defendant, contained in the conveyance from him to the plaintiff. Those covenants are exactly co-extensive, in that respect, with the premises or things previously granted -by the deed. By determining, therefore, what was so granted, we shall ascertain what is within the scope and intention of the covenants.
The plaintiff claims, that the defendant, by this conveyance, granted to him not only the piece of land, containing five acres, therein described,…
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