Bloomer v. Henderson
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal by defendant Henderson from Genesee Circuit •in Chancery. The bill was filed against David S. Jones, Edwin L. Hoisington, and Henry M. Henderson, and avers that the complainant, on the 8th of May, 1858, was the owner in fee and was in the quiet possession of certain premises: Waal; on that day he negociated with defendants Jones Qind Hoisington for the sale of these premises, which resulted in an agreement on the part of complainant to sell them to Jones for $950;…
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Appeal by defendant Henderson from Genesee Circuit •in Chancery. The bill was filed against David S. Jones, Edwin L. Hoisington, and Henry M. Henderson, and avers that the complainant, on the 8th of May, 1858, was the owner in fee and was in the quiet possession of certain premises: Waal; on that day he negociated with defendants Jones Qind Hoisington for the sale of these premises, which resulted in an agreement on the part of complainant to sell them to Jones for $950; $350 of which was to be paid by a deed from Jones to complainant of a forty acre lot in Yenice, Shiawassee county: that the…
1Opinion of the Court
Cheistiancy J.:
All the substantial allegations of the bill in this case, so far as relate to the contract between complainant and Jones *401and the whole transaction between him and Jones and Hoisington, as well as between the latter two, are substantially and satisfactorily proved; and the facts disclose, beyond all reasonable doubt, a gross fraud perpetrated by Jones and Hoisington upon the complainant.
But it is unnecessary to consider what might be the rights of complainant as to Jones and Hoisington; as they have allowed the bill to be taken as confessed, and have not appealed.
We are only to…
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