Balch v. Radford
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to Wayne; Van Zile, J. Summary proceedings by Mary E. Balch and others against George W. Radford for possession of premises occupied by respondent. Judgment for complainant in both commissioner’s court and circuit court.
1DissentBird, J.
These proceedings had their beginning before a circuit court commissioner to oust the defendant from the possession of certain premises in the city of Detroit. Judgment of ouster was entered by the commissioner, and a like result was reached in the circuit court. The appellant insists in this court, as he did before the commissioner and in the circuit court, that the commissioner had no jurisdiction to try the case because the issue involved a question of title, to real estate.
It appears that defendant and his wife mortgaged their homestead, known as 74 Hancock Avenue East, in 1895, to one…
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