Trust Co. v. Hodges

Citations

• 15 Pa. Super. 299
• 1900 Pa. Super. LEXIS 344

Syllabus

<p>Ground rent — Break in the record — Presumption arising from series of conveyances and payment of ground rent.</p> <p>Where there was a break in the chain of title of a ground rent and immediately after that break the record was consistent throughout and the estate which came to the defendant was made subject to the payment of a ground rent to the party in whom the record showed the legal title to be vested and to his heirs, held, that after a long continued and consistent series of conveyances and the payment of ground rent in accordance therewith, the existence of a deed creating the ground rent must be presumed. Such conditions do not disclose the case of an innocent purchaser, without notice, being misled by the record.</p> <p>Executory agreement to convey — Ground rent.</p> <p>An executory contract to convey land upon ground rent, upon performance of a stipulated condition, leaves the whole legal title in the covenantor, and a ground rent may legally be reserved by proper covenants in the deed, executed in pürsuance óf the contract.</p>