Douglass v. Boardman
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Kent; Grove, J. Bill by Andrew L. Douglass and others against Mary L. Boardman and Clark H. Gleason to enjoin the prosecution of ejectment suits. From an order overruling their several demurrers to the bill, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
The defendant Mrs. Boardman claims a dower interest in upwards of 250 lots in the city of Grand Rapids, owned by about 130 persons, who are now in the possession thereof. Mrs. Boardman has brought four ejectment suits to recover her dower, and threatens to bring others. The defendant Gleason is her attorney in the ejectment suits. Tht defendants in the ejectment suits and 87 other lot holders joined in filing a bill of complaint, in which they allege that they are owners in fee, and in possession, of their respective lots; that they get their title from one source; that the assertion of a…
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