Ortmann v. Plummer

The bill in this ease was filed to enforce rights growing out of a lien claimed for unpaid purchase money of a tract of timbered land. In 1874 a firm which had become interested, under the name of Yan Etten, Campbell & Co., in the assets of a previous firm, were holders of a contract for 2209 acres, partly paid for, which had belonged, to complainant and others, and then were practically .complainant’s. At the same time complainant and one Boeing held a contract for 4892.86 acres, originally made by the Jackson, Lansing '& Saginaw Railroad Company to Dexter A. Ballou, on which some payments…