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← 30 Mass. 116 - Comstock v. Smith

Comstock v. Smith’s Empirical Analysis

1832

Citation profile

1
cited by 1 later decisions
1
states following
January 1933
most recently cited

1 state decisions

Relationships

Relies on Jackson ex dem. Trowbridge v. Dunsbagh

Most-quoted passages

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  1. “He is estopped to set up a title subsequently obtained by him because if he should recover against his grantee, the grantee in his turn would be entitled to an action against the grantor to recover the value of the land.”
    1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority

How this case has been treated — in progress

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