Hope v. Detroit Trust Co.

The bill of complaint herein avers that plaintiff Ernestine Hope, and 76 others, as descendants and heirs at law of Jacques Campau of Wayne county, who died in 1838, are the owners in fee simple, as tenants in common, of a portion of Private Claim 322 in interests, varying from an undivided l/6048th to a l/72d each with Daniel J. Campau, Jr., who owned or claimed to own at the time of his death, in 1927, all of the remaining undivided interest therein. Defendant, Detroit Trust Company, is the testamentary trustee of Adele Campau Thompson, deceased, the sister of Daniel, Jr., and intervening…