Barlage v. Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway Co.

The plaintiff, by conveyances from the heirs of Joseph Ellair, who died in 1846, has become the owner in fee-simple of a strip of land thirty feet in width, from the southerly end of lot eleven south of Franklin street, on the Louis Moran farm in the city of Detroit, unless the proceedings to appropriate the same for the purposes of the Detroit & Pontiac Railroad Company, taken in the year 1851, were effectual, which the plaintiff denies. The facts in the case are for the most part agreed upon by the parties, and they appear to be the following:

Joseph Ellair was the owner of the land in…