Bunce v. Bidwell
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Jackson. Ejectment. Defendant brings error. Where ejectment is brought for a homestead, the wife is a necessary-party defendant, Hodson v. Van Fossen 26 Mich. 68; Henry v. Gregory 29 Mich. 68; Crane v. Seitz 30 Mich. 453; a boundary acquiesced in for more than twenty years cannot be disturbed (Smith v. Hamilton 20 Mich. 433; Joyce v. Williams 26 Mich. 332; Diehl v. Zanger 39 Mich. 601; Dupont v. Starring 42 Mich. 492; Chapman v. Crooks 41 Mich. 595; Baldwin v. Brown…
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Error to Jackson. Ejectment. Defendant brings error. Where ejectment is brought for a homestead, the wife is a necessary-party defendant, Hodson v. Van Fossen 26 Mich. 68; Henry v. Gregory 29 Mich. 68; Crane v. Seitz 30 Mich. 453; a boundary acquiesced in for more than twenty years cannot be disturbed (Smith v. Hamilton 20 Mich. 433; Joyce v. Williams 26 Mich. 332; Diehl v. Zanger 39 Mich. 601; Dupont v. Starring 42 Mich. 492; Chapman v. Crooks 41 Mich. 595; Baldwin v. Brown 16 N. Y. 374); even by a new survey, Jackson- v. Dieffendorf 3 Johns. 269; Beed v. Farr 35 N. Y. 113.
1Opinion of the CourtCooley, J.
The land which Bidwell sought to recover in this case is a strip twenty-seven feet in width across the north end of the south half of the east half of the southwest quarter of section seventeen in township four south of range one west in Jackson county. Bidwell has a paper title to this forty-acre lot, which he acquired in 1879, and he owns and has resided for many years on the forty acres adjoining it on the west. Bunee owns the north half of the east half of said southwest quarter, and resides upon it.
*544The narrow strip is in controversy by reason of an error in a survey by which the parties…
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- Leffingwell v. WarrenSupreme Court of the United States · 1862
- Diehl v. ZangerMichigan Supreme Court · 1878
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- Brent v. ChapmanSupreme Court of the United States · 1809
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