Clark v. Hall
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne Circuit. Ejectment: brought in tbe Circuit Court for tbe County of Wayne, by Edmund Hall, now defendant in error, against James W. Clark, now plaintiff in error.
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Error to Wayne Circuit. Ejectment: brought in tbe Circuit Court for tbe County of Wayne, by Edmund Hall, now defendant in error, against James W. Clark, now plaintiff in error. On the trial tbe plaintiff proved that on tbe 5th day of May, A. D. 1835, Erastus H. Spaulding entered tbe premises in question, at tbe land office in Detroit, and that tbe certificate of such entry was numbered 12,714, and also, that a patent from tbe United States was issued to Shubael Conant, as assignee of Spaulding, of said premises, dated April first, A. D. 1837. Tbe plaintiff also offered in evidence an…
1Opinion of the Court
Cooley Ch. J.
This suit comes before us on writ of error sued out to reverse a judgment recovered by Hall in the Circuit Court for the County of Wayne m an action of ejectment.
It appears from the record that Erastus H. Spaulding purchased the lands in controversy of the Hnited States, on the fifth day of May, 1835, and received the usual certificate of entry therefor. On the seventh day of the following July, Spaulding, it is claimed, made a formal assignment of this certificate to Shubael Conant, and the Hnited States, on April 1, 1837, issued to Conant, as assignee of Spaulding, the usual…
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