Case ID: ky_26/html/0544-01.html
Source: Caselaw Access Project
Author: {"author": "Chief Justice Robertson", "license": "Public Domain", "url": "https://static.case.law/"}
Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

Darby’s heirs vs. Richardson.
    
    Chancee*. Case 155.
    April 16.
    Error to the Meade Circuit; Henri Pirtle, Judge
    
      General warranty deed. Infants. Guardian ad litem.
    ’Tis error to decree a general warranty deed, where the covenant is for a quit claim deed.
    There should bq no decree aghinst infant heirs, until they are represented by a guardian ad litem.
    
      Mills and Brown, for plaintiffs; Semple, lor defendant.
   Chief Justice Robertson

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The consideration is sufficient in this case, -to entitle the defendant in error to a specific execution of the contract.

But the circuit court erred in its decree.

1st. As the covenant was for a quit claim deed, the court ought not to have decreed a general warranty deed.

2d. There should have been no decree against Bleight’s heirs, until they had been represented by a guardian ad litem.

Wherefore, the decree is reversed, and the cause remanded, for proceedings consistent with this opinion.