Parker v. Moore
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of the covenant of seisin contained in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff. The case was submitted to the Superior Court, and, after judgment for the plaintiff, to this court, on appeal, upon an agreed statement of facts, the substance of which appears in the opinion.
1Opinion of the CourtMorton, J.
The only question presented in this case is whether there was a breach of thei covenant of seisin contained in the deed of the defendant to the plaintiff, dated February 1, 1872. On May 1, 1860, William Edwards, being the owner of the premises in question, called the “ Edwards House,” and of the adjoining estate, conveyed the adjoining estate to John Edwards, by a deed in which the said William reserved to himself, his heirs and assigns, “ the right to pass up and down the stairs *553leading to said hotel, and through the entry ways to the several rooms in said hotel adjoining the said stairs and…
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