Ladd v. Noyes

This is an action upon the covenants against incumbrances and of warranty in a deed of land from the defendant to the plaintiff’s grantor. To maintain the action, the plaintiff must show a breach of one of the covenants after he became the assignee of the land. A right of action for a breach of a covenant is a chose in "action, and does not pass with the land. The plaintiff cannot recover upon evidence which shows a right of action in Hadley, his grantor, and the immediate covenantee of the covenants sued upon. So far as the evidence tends to prove any right of action upon the defendant’s…