Stearn v. Hesdorfer
New York Court of Common Pleas
Action by Bertha Stearn against Louisa Hesdorfer. The complaint was dismissed, and plaintiff’s exceptions were ordered to be heard in the first instance at general term.
1Opinion of the CourtBookstaver, J.
This action was brought to recover $20,000' damages for the alleged breach of the covenant of seisin in a deed made by the defendant and one Joseph Hesdorfer of certain premises therein described by metes and bounds, “with the buildings and improvements thereon erected.” The complaint alleges that the defendant was not seised of the premises conveyed, and did not have good right or power to convey the same, by reason of the fact that the northerly wall encroached upon the street, and the easterly wall' encroached upon the land of the adjoining owner; and that the alleged encroachments -were a…
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