Walker v. Boynton
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for a breach of the covenants of seisin and good right to convey, contained in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff of a parcel of land on Greenwich Street in Boston. At the trial in the Superior Court, Brigham, C. J., ordered a pro forma verdict for the plaintiff, and reported the case for the consideration of this court. The facts appear in the opinion. The report also referred to a plan, a copy of the material part of which is printed on the next page.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
All the land included in the quadrangle between Greenwich, Warwick, Windsor and Madison Streets formerly belonged to the Tremont Improvement Company. In 1866 this company caused the land to be surveyed and laid out into lots, and a plan thereof to be made and recorded. It afterwards conveyed these lots to various persons, the deeds severally referring to this plan. It is necessary to refer to only two of these deeds. By deed dated April 14,1867, it conveyed to one Pelton seven lots on the easterly side of Windsor Street, as shown on said plan, “ beginning at the southwesterly comer of land…
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