Morgan v. Haley
Supreme Court of Virginia
Error to a judgment of the Circuit Court of Lee county, in an action of covenant. Judgment for the plaintiff. Defendant assigns error.
1Opinion of the CourtBuchanan, J.
John D. Morgan, the plaintiff in error, sold and conveyed a tract of land to Sanders Spurlock, with covenants of general warranty; and Spurlock sold and conveyed the same to Erances Haley, the defendant in error, who instituted this, her action of covenant against Morgan to recover damages for the loss of a portion of the land by title paramount, as alleged in her declaration.
The first error assigned in the petition, and which raised the question as to the proper method of declaring on a lost deed, was waived in oral argument.
The second assignment of error is to the action of the court in…
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