Goyette v. Keenan
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Contract for breach of qovenant of seisin in a deed of land of the defendants to the plaintiff. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Hampden dated September 22, 1903. There was a trial before Hitchcock, J. The deed from the defendants to the plaintiff was dated July 27,1903, and contained the following description: “A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated on the west side of Water street in said Springfield, and bounded and described as follows,…
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Contract for breach of qovenant of seisin in a deed of land of the defendants to the plaintiff. Writ in the Superior Court for the county of Hampden dated September 22, 1903. There was a trial before Hitchcock, J. The deed from the defendants to the plaintiff was dated July 27,1903, and contained the following description: “A certain parcel of land with the buildings thereon, situated on the west side of Water street in said Springfield, and bounded and described as follows, viz. on the east by said Water street, three rods; on the north by land formerly belonging to the heirs of John…
1Opinion of the CourtSheldon, J.
1. The mortgage deed given by the defendants to the Springfield Five Cents Savings Bank in 1898 rightly was excluded. It had no material bearing upon the issue tried in this case. The plaintiff’s declaration and his whole case rested upon the claim that the defendants were not seised of the land in dispute, described in his deed as “ land formerly belonging to Henry Bliss, now or lately to one White,” and so that this land did not pass to him. It seems to have been agreed by both parties that this land was held by White at the time that the plaintiff took his deed; and the real question was…
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- Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1895
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- Koplan v. Boston Gas Light Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1900
- Robinson v. Old Colony Street Railway Co.Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1905
- Percival v. ChaseMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1903
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