Chamberlain v. Durfee

Defendants, Bolland Durfee and wife, residents of the township of Litchfield, Hillsdale county, Michigan, are the owners of a farm of 270 acres, or thereabouts, located within a mile and a half of their home. Mrs. Durfee is the sister of Samuel B. Chamberlain, who, with his wife, occupy the farm and are plaintiffs herein. Defendants served a three-months’ notice to quit on plaintiffs, and thereafter brought suit before a justice of the peace for Litchfield township to recover possession of their 270-acre farm. Plaintiffs thereupon began the instant suit to restrain the summary proceedings…