Burton v. Martz

Burton brought ejectment for the undivided three-fourths of lot 19 of the subdivision of outlot 183 of the Rivard farm in the city of Detroit, and showed title from three of the four heirs of Yictoire Gagnier deceased, who had once owned said outlot 183. The defendants purchased a title which was conveyed by her surviving husband Janvier Gagnier, who was heir-at-law of the fourth child of Yictoire, dying intestate *763without issue, but who undertook to convey the entire land as owner in fee, and not merely said undivided fourth.

Yietoire Gagnier never conveyed the property to any one, and it went…