Ridgley v. Roma

This is an action in ejectment involving 40 acres of land in Ogemaw county, considered worthless until the recent discovery of oil. Plaintiffs claim title in fee and defendants under a claimed perfected tax title. Plaintiffs attack the validity of the tax title and defendants reply in kind. By bringing this form of action plaintiffs invoke strict rules of law in considering the titles.

Plaintiffs’ recovery, if any, rests upon the strength of their own title and not on the weakness of defendants’. West Michigan Park Ass’n v. Railroad Co., 172 Mich. 179; Kushler v. Weber, 182 Mich. 224; Bird v.…