LEH v. BURKE

How courts have described this case

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• covenant against encumbrances breached only if encumbrances exist at the time the deed is delivered
• statement in deed that “Grantees, their heirs or successors in title shall bear their proportionate share of the expenses of such improvements” was indicative that covenant was intended to run with the land
• “the test ... is whether it was so intended by its creators.”
• “When a promise to do an affirmative act, such as ... to make a monetary payment, is found to run with the land, the person in possession at the time the obligation matures is responsible for discharging it.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).