McCague v. Schwartz

Citations

• 276 Pa. 44
• 119 A. 740
• 1923 Pa. LEXIS 524

Syllabus

<p>Vendor and vendee — Agreement to sell real estate — Insufficiency of deed tendered — Deed.</p> <p>1. Where an owner enters into an agreement to sell a lot of land having “a frontage of approximately thirty-one feet” on a street named, “being part” of premises devised to him, and it appears that the entire frontage owned by him was 32.51 feet of which 7% inches was represented by an encroachment of a cornice of an adjoining building, the agreement is fully and satisfactorily complied with by a tender of a warranty deed for a lot having a frontage of 31.88 feet and for a quit claim deed for the 7% inches in dispute.</p> <p>2. In such case the tender of the warranty deed in fact meets the requirements of the agreement,</p>