Court Opinion

ID: 9809943
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-31 21:34:45.325524+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T13:39:14.201091
License: Public Domain

*108Douglas, J.,
concurring.
I concur in the opinion of the Court with reluctance, on account of the great and unmerited hardship it inflicts irpon so many individuals, but I am forced to concur, because, in my opinion, it is the law. We have no implied warranties as to real estate, and as express warranty is a covenant real running with the land, it can never arise when the deed creating it is absolutely void.
1'f the warranty could operate at all, it could only be by estopped in pais. An estoppel may at times prevent a person from denying the validity of an act, which he might lawfully have done, but not an act which he could not do. In other words, an estoppel can never be used to evade the law by validating an act forbidden by law.
I have given to the law of married women, as laid down in the opinions of this Court, the repeated assent of my deliberate judgment, and can not now undertake to reverse a long line of decisions on account of the exceptional hardships of an individual case.