Crane v. Reeder
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment brought by Walter Crane in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne against Edwin Reeder and Eliza Reeder, devisees under the will of Edwin Reeder, deceased, who devised to them, in common with others, a large tract of land, which includes the locus in quo. The facts, as developed on the trial, are substantially as follows: In 1799, John Harvey was a resident of Detroit.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment brought by Walter Crane in the Circuit Court for the county of Wayne against Edwin Reeder and Eliza Reeder, devisees under the will of Edwin Reeder, deceased, who devised to them, in common with others, a large tract of land, which includes the locus in quo. The facts, as developed on the trial, are substantially as follows: In 1799, John Harvey was a resident of Detroit. He had come from England several years previously, and had resided in Detroit for several years, pursuing the occupation of a baker. About the year 1816 he removed from…
1Opinion of the Court
Campbell, Ch. J.
Crane, the plaintiff, sued defendants to recover certain lands in Wayne county, claimed by him to have escheated to the State, and to have been conveyed to him by the Trustees of Escheated Lands.
The land was deeded in 1801 by Todd & McGill to John Harvey, to whom it was afterwards confirmed by the United States under an act of Congress regulating grants of land in the Territory of Michigan, whereby all persons residing in the Territory and occupying lands which they or their grantors had continuously occupied and improved since and previous to July 1, 1796, were entitled to…
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