Biddle v. Biddle
Michigan Supreme Court
Cross-appeals from Wayne; Codd, J. Bill by Louisa Biddle against William S. Biddle and others for the partition of real estate. The Detroit Trust Company, as trustee, was authorized to sell certain property. On default of payments, an option contract was declared forfeited: On petition parties were permitted to intervene claiming title to $15,000 paid as first payment on said contract. From the order determining the parties entitled to the fund, all parties appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBird, J.
Primarily this suit was begun in the Wayne circuit court to partition the Biddle estate, but none of the issues of partition are involved in this controversy. The Detroit Trust Company, trustee of the estate and holder of the legal title to the property to be partitioned, received an offer in April, 1916, for a farm owned by the estate, situate in Ecorse township, known as the “Woodbridge farm.” On April 27,1916, by permission of the court, the trustee made a contract with the Samuel A. Merchant Realty Company to sell to it the “Woodbridge farm” consisting of about 208 acres for the…
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