Wilbur v. Grover
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Ionia; Snow, J., presiding. Ejectment by De Witt Wilbur against Harriet Grover and John Grover. There was judgment for plaintiff on a verdict directed by the court, and defendants bring error.
1Opinion of the CourtCarpenter, J.
Plaintiff is the son of defendant Harriet by a former husband, Stephen Wilbur, who died in 1901. He claims that Stephen Wilbur at his death was the owner of the land in controversy, which is now occupied by the two defendants, and he brings this action in ejectment to recover an undivided interest in said lands. Prior to 1879 the land belonged to defendant Harriet. Early in that year said Harriet, while confined to her bed by illness, though concededly in a condition to understand and comprehend what was done, executed a deed which in form conveyed this property to the plaintiff, and…
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