Michaels v. Keane

Citations

• 8 Wash. 648
• 36 P. 681
• 1894 Wash. LEXIS 124

Syllabus

<p>CONVEYANCE OF LANDS IN PARCELS — LIABILITY FOR EXISTING LIENS.</p> <p>Where the owner of a lot subject to a street assessment has conveyed away one-third of the lot by warranty deed, and subsequently conveys the balance of the lot by deed of general warranty except as to street assessments and taxes, the subsequent grantee takes with notice of the equities existing in favor of the first grantee, and he cannot pay the assessment and enforce the collection of one-third of the sum from the grantee holding under the first conveyance.</p>