Case Name: Durbin vs. Garrard &c.
Court: Kentucky Court of Appeals
Jurisdiction: Kentucky
Decision Date: 1827-06-30
Citations: 5 T.B. Mon. 317
Docket Number: 
Parties: Durbin vs. Garrard &c.
Judges: 
Reporter: Kentucky Reports
Volume: 21
Pages: 317–318

Head Matter:
Durbin vs. Garrard &c.
Chancery
Case 70.
Error to the Bourbon circuit; George Shannon, Judge.
June 30.
Vendor'and vend'ée. Warranty. Damages. Implied contracts.
Where there is no proof of fraud, the Vendor’s liability for the loss of the land, is the purchase money and interest.

Opinion:
'Judge Owsley
delivered the Opinion of the Court.
It appearing from the proof and exhibits in the cause, that the title under which Met-calf recovered the fourteen acres of land from Spear's, is paramount to the title of Garrard, and there being no evidence of any fraud having beerl committed by Garrard in the sale of the land, the extent to Which Garrard became liable} upon the recovery of the land by Metcalf} was the consideration money for which he sold the foil'd, afid interest, and 'as fey afterwards accepting a deed of conveyance for the fond from Garrard, Spears discharged Garrard from the liability under his bond for a title, it is but equitable, and the court was correct in so decreeing} that Spears shduld account to Durbin for the amount to which Garrard would otherwise have.been liable, on account of the recovery Of the land by Metcalf, proof having beéñ made that Durbin, from whom Spears obtained.^ the assignment of Garrard's bond for the fourtéen£acres, had, after the recovery by Metcalf,- and before the deed was made by Garrard, settled with Spears for. the lost land.
Implied contracts between vendor and vendee.
Crittenden, for plaintiff; Maye's tmd Talbott, for defendants.
Decree affirmed with costs.