Youngs v. Cunningham
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Lenawee. (Howell, J.) Ejectment. Plaintiff brings error. cited as to the admissibility of declarations made by the holder of title: Ohadwick v. Former 69 N. Y. 404; Pitts v. Wilder 1 N. Y. 525 ; Abbott’s Trial Ev. 711 ; Fellows v. Fellows 37 N. H. 75, 84; Adams v. French 2 N. H. 389 ; and as to declarations in explanation of the character of one’s possession: 1 Greenl.
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Error to Lenawee. (Howell, J.) Ejectment. Plaintiff brings error. cited as to the admissibility of declarations made by the holder of title: Ohadwick v. Former 69 N. Y. 404; Pitts v. Wilder 1 N. Y. 525 ; Abbott’s Trial Ev. 711 ; Fellows v. Fellows 37 N. H. 75, 84; Adams v. French 2 N. H. 389 ; and as to declarations in explanation of the character of one’s possession: 1 Greenl. Ev. § 109 ; Hodgdon v. Shannon 44 N. H. 572 ; Sparrow v. Uovey 44 Mich. 63 ; as to the exclusion of evidence as coming within the spirit of the rule that one cannot testify to facts known only to himself and to some…
1Opinion of the CourtChamplin, J.
Plaintiff brought ejectment to recover possession of forty-five acres of land in the township of Ogden, Lenawee county, which he claims in fee. The defendants are the widow and children of George Cunning*154ham, who died upon the premises in question on the 22d day of February, 1883. The premises were purchased by B. F. Cunningham, the father of George, from one Joel Skinner, in 1865, and the paper title remained in him until March 10, 1883, when he conveyed the property to the plaintiff in this suit. It is claimed by the defendants that they are entitled to hold the land as the widow and…
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