Ready v. Kearsley
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment brought by the original plaintiff, Jonathan Eearsley, now deceased, against Jeremiah Ready. The names of the defendants in error were substituted as plaintiffs below, under the statute.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. This was an action of ejectment brought by the original plaintiff, Jonathan Eearsley, now deceased, against Jeremiah Ready. The names of the defendants in error were substituted as plaintiffs below, under the statute. On the 16th day of June, 1856, one James A. Girardin, who claimed an interest in the lot as one of the heirs of James Girardin, deceased, under a deed of the Mayor, Recorder and Aldermen, of May 27th, 1856, to said heirs, purchased of Daly the buildings on the lot, and received possession thereof from him; and the several sub-tenants in occupation of the…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley J.
The defendants in error, as devisees of Jonathan Kearsley deceased, brought ejectment against Ready, to recover lot 47, in section 8, according to the Governor and Judges’ plan of the city of Detroit. On the trial they gave evidence tending to show that Ready went into possession as assignee of their lessee; and upon this they claimed that he was estopped from showing title in himself as against them. The Circuit Judge took the question on this branch of the case from the jury, by charging them that they need not consider it, inasmuch as the plaintiffs had established a complete…
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