Beebe v. Birkett
Michigan Supreme Court
Motion to dismiss appeal. N. Maria Beebe filed a bill in the circuit court for the county of Livingston, in chancery, against Thomas Birkett, to procure the discharge of certain mortgages. The cause was heard before Judge Dodds, and a decree entered for complainant, from which defendant appealed.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
A decree in favor of complainant was signed July 28, 1895, and filed July 31st, proofs having been taken in open court. On November 2d the case was settled under circumstances which we think justified the circuit judge in settling the same, unless the statutory period had expired. This depends upon which of two statutes is to govern the case.
*235Under 8 How. Stat. § 6647, the circuit court had power to extend the time within which to settle a case for a period not exceeding three months from the date of entering the decree. At its 1895 session the legislature passed an act entitled “An act to…
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