Cranson v. Cranson
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, in Chancery. The bill in this canse was filed by the widow of one Thomas Cranson, deceased, against Ms beirs-at-law, to set aside a deed of certain lands, claimed to have been made and delivered in fraud of complainant’s marital rights, and for dower, etc., in said lands, and also to set aside a bill of sale of personal property, made by said Thomas Cranson to his sons just before Ms death, and for ber distributive share thereof; and also,…
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Appeal from Jackson Circuit Court, in Chancery. The bill in this canse was filed by the widow of one Thomas Cranson, deceased, against Ms beirs-at-law, to set aside a deed of certain lands, claimed to have been made and delivered in fraud of complainant’s marital rights, and for dower, etc., in said lands, and also to set aside a bill of sale of personal property, made by said Thomas Cranson to his sons just before Ms death, and for ber distributive share thereof; and also, for the value of personal property brought by her to said Cranson, upon their marriage, and alleged to have been…
1Opinion of the Court
By the Court,
Martin, J.
From the testimony it appears that prior to the 6th of August, 1848, Thomas Cranson was seized and possessed of the lands in question, and that on that day he executed the deed in question, at the house of one John Pratt, distant about five miles from his own residence. That at the time he executed the deed, he requested that the transaction should be kept secret, and said he wanted the witnesses to say *234nothing about it, not even to their own families, nor to any of his children — assigning as a reason for such request that he was about^getting married, and he thought…
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