Adams v. . Conover’s Empirical Analysis

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1 federal appellate · 14 state decisions

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1. ““The case, therefore, does not come within the rule of Green v. Collins, nor is it like Burke v. Nichols, 2 Keyes (N. Y.) 670. In neither of these cases was the grantee evicted from anything which passed by the grant. That plain line of distinction separates both from a case like the present, where the thing lost was covered by the conveyance, and embraced within its description, and the deed both conveyed, and, as we construe it, purported to convey, the identical thing destroyed by a paramount title. The justice of the rule is entirely clear. It does not permit the vendor of an apparent water power to get a price for what he does not own, or indulge him in a palpable fraud upon his vendee. It rests upon the general principle that the covenants in a deed are designed to protect the .grantee in the enjoyment of his property, in the manner and for the particular purpose intended by the parties at the time of executing the deed. Comstock v. Johnson, 46 N. Y. 615 ; Voorhees v. Burchard, 55 N. Y. 102 .””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Pabst Brewing Co. v. Thorley