Chicago Lumbering Co. v. Powell
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Schoolcraft; Steere, J. Bill by the Chicago Lumbering Company against Daniel W. Powell and others to quiet title to certain timber. Prom a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The bill of complaint was filed to restrain the defendants from cutting timber upon premises which the complainant claimed to own. The pleadings raise a question .of ownership between the parties, and the defendants appeal from an adverse decree.
A stipulation shows that Jonathan Nield was the owner of the land on May 22, 1879, and the proof discloses that upon that day Nield and wife made a deed of the land *53to Adam Murray, of Manchester, England. The deed recites that:
“ Whereas, at a meeting of the creditors of the said Jonathan Nield, duly convened and holden on the twenty-seventh day of…
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