Gordon v. Phillips
Gordon v. Phillips
Opinion of the Court
We are not at all prepared to say that, before a proper forum and with the proper parties, and with such allegations as were asserted as true on the argument, these parties are without redress. But we think as the case stood, and as it now stands, the charge of the court was right. Glenn & Wright, and they alone, have Phillips’ deed. To allow these plaintiffs in error to set off against their notes the value of the land lost by the breach of Phillips’ warranty to Glenn & Wright, would be no defense by Phillips to an action by them or their vendees on that warranty. General Gordon and his co-purchasers got no warranty and have given none. If Glenn &• Wright be insolvent, and if the other matters set up on argument here be true, we do not say that these defendants may not have some rights of subrogation, etc. But with the present parties and allegations and pleadings, to give to these defendants the right to set np the warranty to Glenn & Wright,' would be to expose Phillips to the same difficulty they are in. Who shall say that Glenn & Wright have not sold to parties who may have a right to sue Phillips on his deed ? The legal right of the plaintiffs in error is clearly gone. They got no warranty, and they gave none. If they have, any
Judgment affirmed.
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