Bovine v. Selden
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Delta; Stone, J. Bill by Olivine Bovine against Sarah L. Selden, John M. Olson, and others, for the specific performance of a land contract, and to set aside a deed. Defendants Olson filed an answer in the nature of a cross-bill to quiet title to land. From a decree dismissing the bill, and granting the prayer of the cross-bill, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtMoore, J.
This is an appeal from a decree in a chancery case. The questions involved were clearly stated by the trial court in a written opinion prepared by him, which reads in part as follows:
“I have such grave doubt of the equities of the complainant’s claim that I am constrained to dismiss her bill of complaint. Her husband had a land contract of a lot in the city of Escanaba, upon which a house was built, and there is no doubt that on April 14, A. D. 1906, the same was a homestead, and was the homestead of complainant’s husband and family, within the meaning of the *557Constitution and statutes of this…
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