Bonnell v. McLaughlin

Plaintiffs, as devisees under the will of James McMahon, deceased, brought this action against the defendants to recover property, title to which vested in Thomas McLaughlin and Anna McLaughlin, his wife, under deed to them by James McMahon, plaintiffs’ testate. They charge a forfeiture of the title in the McLaughlins for their breach of a condition subsequent contained in McMahon’s deed to them. The other defendants are grantees of the McLaughlins of certain parts of the land conveyed in the McMahon deed. The complaint set up the McMahon conveyance in full, and the court sustained a general…