Beeker v. Hastings
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal in Chancery from Wayne Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed to set aside a conveyance on the ground of fraud and inadequacy of price. It was dismissed in the court below. The facts are stated in the opinion.
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Appeal in Chancery from Wayne Circuit. The bill in this cause was filed to set aside a conveyance on the ground of fraud and inadequacy of price. It was dismissed in the court below. The facts are stated in the opinion. The bill in this case seeks to rescind the deed given to the defendants as obtained by fraud and through a bargain, “such as no honest or fair person would accej>t on the one part, and such as no person, not under delusion or imposed upon, would grant on the other; a transaction which shocks the conscience, and produces an exclamation.” Land, which the defendants admit in…
1Opinion of the Court
Christiancy J.
The decree of the court below declaring the deed void as to complainant Maria E. Braun, on the ground of her minority, not having been appealed from by her or the defendants, we are only to consider the case so far as it relates to the complainant John J. Beeker.
Complainants and their mother, since deceased, believing themselves to be the owners, and being in possession of a lot on the plat of a part of the Louis Moran farm, undertook, through complainant John J. Beeker, to sell the same. He employed an agent by the name of Gee to make the sale, but having for some time been…
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