Rudkin v. Rand
Supreme Court of Connecticut
Action to recover damages for an alleged breach of a covenant of seizin in fee simple, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Middlesex County, Case, upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court. Lucia A. Rand died in 1892, seized and possessed in fee simple of the real estate described in the complaint.
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Action to recover damages for an alleged breach of a covenant of seizin in fee simple, brought to and reserved by the Superior Court in Middlesex County, Case, upon an agreed statement of facts, for the advice of this court. Lucia A. Rand died in 1892, seized and possessed in fee simple of the real estate described in the complaint. This property is included in that which she disposed of by the thirteenth paragraph of her will, duly probated, which reads as follows:— “All the rest and residue of my estate, Bank Stock, Railroad Stock, notes and mortgages (if any) all the real estate on Mount…
1Opinion of the CourtPrentice, C. J.
The defendant is the first named of the four nephews of Lucia A. Rand who were made beneficiaries under the thirteenth paragraph of her will. At the time he gave to the plaintiff the deed in question, he had acquired all the right, title and interest which his three brothers, the heirs at law of the testatrix, the heirs at law of D. C. Rand and Jane S. Smith, both deceased, and Catherine H. Carnahan, now deceased, and her heirs at law, had, or ought to have, or might thereafter have, in or to the land conveyed. If his conveyance failed to give a good title to the plaintiff, it must have been…
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