Maltz v. Fletcher

The facts out of which this litigation arises appear in the opinion of the Court in Beekman v. Fletcher 48 Mich. 156. In the year 1881 John G-. Beekman, assignee of the Alpena Lumber Company, filed his bill in the circuit court for the county of Alpena in chancery to restrain Fletcher from interfering with or taking legal or other measures to get possession of certain logs, the ownership of which was in dispute between them. The bill showed that the controversy respecting the logs was involved in another suit in equity to which Beekman and Fletcher were parties, and it prayed no other relief…