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75 Mass. 204

Bennett v. Ryan

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court

Decided October 15, 1857

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · decided 1857-10-15

<p>In an action on a promissory note given in consideration of a warranty deed of land, the defendant cannot introduce paroi evidence that other land was previously agreed to be conveyed to him, not covered by the description in the deed, and from which he was afterwards evicted.</p>

Decided 1857-10-15

Shaw, C. J.

¶1The note in suit was given in consideration for the deed actually given and accepted by the grantee. The attempt now is to show by paroi .evidence that the agreement was to convey more land than the deed conveyed, which is repugnant to the deed, and inadmissible. If there was a fraudulent misrepresentation, that his land was more than it really was and embraced the whole surface on which a certain building stood, which representation was wilfully false, and the defendant acted upon it to his damage, a separate action will lie. Brown v. Castles, 11 Cush. 349, and cases there cited.

¶2 Exceptions overruled.

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