Widner v. Olmstead
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Wayne Circuit. The bills in these cases were filed by complainant to enforce certain liens for purchase money under defendants’ contracts, and which were treated in the nature of equitable mortgages. The cases being closely connected in their facts, were considered together. The facts are fully stated in the opinion.
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
These two cases being closely connected in their facts, will be considered together.
The complainant, who is the wife of Moses B. Widner, was, on the 22d day of February, 1854, the owner in fee of an eighty acre lot, in the township of Huron, in the county of Wayne, upon which there was a steam saw .mill, erected mainly with her money, but the engine and boiler in which seem to have been obtained on the credit of the husband, with certain chattel mortgages thereon, as collateral security. On that day the husband in his own name entered into a certain contract by deed with…
2Cases cited1 opinion
- Evans v. Wells & SpringCourt for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors · 1839
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