Bruckner's lessee v. Lawrence
Michigan Supreme Court
Ejectment tried at the Circuit Court for the county of Monroe, at the December term, 1840, before the Hon. Wm. A. Fletcher, Presiding Judge, who reserved certain questions arising at the trial, and certified them to this Court for its opinion thereon. The questions reserved appear in the opinion of the Court.
1Opinion of the CourtRansom, J.
This is an action of ejectment brought by the plaintiff to recover the possession of a certain tract of land, described in the declaration.
On the trial of the cause at the Circuit, the plaintiff gave in evidence a patent from the President of the United States, to Geo. McDougal and Israel Ruland, dated July 24, 1811, executed under an act of congress entitled “ an act regulating the grant of land in the territory of Michigan,” approved March 31, 1807, under which he claimed the lands in question.
The patentees, a few days subsequently to the date of the patent, conveyed the land to Gov. Hull.…
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