Howe v. Benedict
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Ionia; Davis, J. Bill by Martin L. Howe against Alfred Benedict and others for specific performance of a contract of Rhoda A. Howe, deceased. From a decree for complainant, defendants appeal.
1Opinion of the CourtBrooke, J.
The bill of complaint in this cause is filed for the purpose of compelling specific performance of a contract alleged to have been entered into between complainant and one Rhoda A. Howe. It appears that complainant was a stepson of said Rhoda A. Howe (now deceased). Her son, Ernest C. Howe, a half-brother of complainant, inherited from his father 40 acres of the land in question. To this farm he added by purchase until, at his death in 1897, he owned 95 acres. Dying intestate, Ernest’s sole heir was his mother, Rhoda. She made a lease of the farm for three years to Alfred Benedict, a son of…
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