Crawford v. Spencer

Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Crawford v. Spencer, 62 Mass. 418 (Mass. 1851)
Metcalf

Crawford v. Spencer

Opinion of the Court

Metcalf, J.

Here is a plain grant to the demandant; and no fraud in the execution of it is suggested. Nor does any *420extrinsic fact raise a latent ambiguity as to the true grantee, so as to admit explanatory parol evidence. The testimony which was offered would have merely shown a mistake, which the court has no authority, in any way, to correct. The demanded premises passed to the demandant, by force of the deed; and evidence to contradict the deed, or to control its effect, was rightly rejected. See 12 Johns. 77, 488.

Judgment on the verdict.

Reference

Full Case Name
James M. Crawford v. Gideon L. Spencer
Status
Published