Hooker v. Tucker

This is an appeal from a decree of the circuit court in chancery of Gratiot county. The court had been asked to make a declaration of rights established by a written instrument dated October 5, 1948, controversy having existed as between the parties to this action based upon claimed rights under the provisions of the contract.

In 1948, Minnie E. Tucker, mother of defendant William E. Tucker, owned a substantial interest in lands in Gratiot county, Michigan. William E. Tucker and Rachel Hooker, plaintiff herein, were then husband and wife and the parents of 4 children. In September of that year…