McKnight v. Broedell

FREEMAN, District Judge.

This is a diversity action to foreclose a contract for the sale of land in a plat adjoining Lake St. Clair executed on February 2, 1956, between the plaintiffs, as vendors, and the defendant and her late husband, as vendees, based on a failure to make required payments of principal and interest due on and after January 17, 1958. The defendant in her answer and counterclaim for cancellation of the contract and other relief asserts that the State of Michigan claims ownership to a portion of the lands described in the contract and, consequently, plaintiffs cannot convey a…