Hogelskamp v. Weeks
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Allegan. Ejectment, plaintiff claiming title through a government patent and various subsequent conveyances. The patentee had conveyed by warranty deed signed and sealed in the State of New York, before two subscribing witnesses, March 4, 1837, and recorded May 30, 1837, in Allegan county. Upon this deed was endorsed the certificate of acknowledgment of a commissioner of deeds, but the clerk’s certificate attached thereto was not authenticated by a seal.
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Error to Allegan. Ejectment, plaintiff claiming title through a government patent and various subsequent conveyances. The patentee had conveyed by warranty deed signed and sealed in the State of New York, before two subscribing witnesses, March 4, 1837, and recorded May 30, 1837, in Allegan county. Upon this deed was endorsed the certificate of acknowledgment of a commissioner of deeds, but the clerk’s certificate attached thereto was not authenticated by a seal. The court found, notwithstanding, that the deed was properly executed and acknowledged and entitled to record under the laws then…
1Opinion of the CourtGraves, J.
Weeks brought ejectment against the plaintiffs in error for an eighty acre lot. The judge heard the case without a jury and specially found the facts and ordered judgmetn against the plaintiff in error first named for the *425east fifty acres of the lot and against his associate for the balance. They then brought error.
A bill of exceptions appears in the return but it contains no exceptions on the admission of evidence; neither does the record indicate that any points in the nature of requests to charge were presented.
Preceding the finding by the judge, we have in this bill what purports to have…
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