Court Opinion

ID: 7930356
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2022-09-08 23:03:39.553142+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T16:33:19.842875
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Marston, C. J.
Under the pleadings and facts found by the circuit judge in this case we are of opinion the plaintiff was not entitled to recover. The plaintiff claimed to recover as an assignee for breach of covenants of warranty in a deed of conveyance of lands, although he at no time had any right or interest in the premises conveyed. The conveyance to the plaintiff’s assignor contained the “ usual covenants of warranty,” some of which certainly run with the land, and the grantee therein could not sever her right of action thereunder and assign the same to a third person, she still retaining the premises.
Previous to this assignment the premises had been mortgaged, and the mortgage was still outstanding and might therefore ripen into a title, and should such happen the hqlder thereof would be entitled to the benefit of such covenants as run with the land.
Even if this were insufficient there are still other objections to the plaintiff’s recovery under the facts as found by the circuit judge. In no view of the case was the plaintiff entitled to recover.
The judgment must be reversed and judgment entered in this court for the plaintiff in error with costs of both courts.
The other Justices concurred.