Dale v. Turner
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Eaton Circuit. to the point that complainant’s title was such only as the locator, Britton, acquired by his entry and location, and this was an equitable title, cited: 4 Wall., 210; 11 Wheat., 200; 3 How., 441; as to complainant’s right to come into equity for relief: Gomp.
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Appeal in Chancery from Eaton Circuit. to the point that complainant’s title was such only as the locator, Britton, acquired by his entry and location, and this was an equitable title, cited: 4 Wall., 210; 11 Wheat., 200; 3 How., 441; as to complainant’s right to come into equity for relief: Gomp. L., 1871, § 5072; 1 Doug., 546; 9 Mich., 381; 16 Mich., 135; 13 Peters, 436; 11 Wheat., 380. This case is not within the ruling of Grant v. Smith, 26 Mich., 204, or Busch v. Donohue, 31 Mich., 481; or R. R. Co. v. Smith, 9 Wall., 95; the swamp land grant of 1850 is to be construed as only an…
1Opinion of the Court
Grates, J:
This cause comes before the court by appeal on complainant’s part from a decree dismissing his bill on pleadings and proofs.
The parties-holding hostile claims to two forty-acre parcels of swamp land, and complainant being iii possession, the defendants brought ejectment, and thereupon complainant filed the present bill to enjoin the law proceedings and to subject the question of right underlying the controversy to decision in equity.
The complainant claims through several mesne grants from one Britton, who in 1852 made an entry at the United States land office at Ionia under a…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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