Thompson v. Skowhegan Savings Bank

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that, although the vendor to a land installment contract retains legal title, the purchaser is the equitable owner for purposes of bringing a tort claim against an abutting landowner
• stating that “the vendor of land under an installment sale contract retains legal title to the land”
• “As a general rule, the vendee, under an executory contract for the sale of land, cannot complain of defects in the vendor’s title before the time set for delivery of the deed.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).