Hodges v. Thayer
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract by the executor of the "will of Milla Aldrich, to recover for the breach of the covenants of seisin and right to convey in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff’s testatrix of land in Minnesota.
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Contract by the executor of the "will of Milla Aldrich, to recover for the breach of the covenants of seisin and right to convey in a deed from the defendant to the plaintiff’s testatrix of land in Minnesota. The deed stated its consideration to be $1000 paid y the plaintiff’s testatrix, and the description of the premises conveyed by it was as follows : “ Certain lots or pateéis of land, situated, lying and being in the county of Pine, in the State of Minnesota, and bounded and described as follows, to wit: The south half (i) of the southeast quarter Q) of section No. six (6), and the…
1Opinion of the CourtWells, J.
We think the construction given, by the court below, to the deed from Rogers to Robertson, was the correct ana *289The general phrase applied to the premises is, “ All those tracts or parcels of land situate,” &c., “ described as follows.” The first particular- description is of “ one equal and undivided one half part” of certain tracts, defined by number of township, range, section and lot, or fraction of section, indicated by points of compass. Then, after a semicolon, the description proceeds, “ also, lots three and four,” &c.
The fact that the statement of the undivided half interest is…
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