Hulan v. Shannon
Michigan Supreme Court
Appeal from Wayne; Murfin, J. Bill by Anna S. Huían against William H. Shannon, Matilda Shannon, and John Huían for the specific enforcement of an oral agreement to convey land to complainant. From a decree dismissing the bill entered without requiring defendants to introduce evidence to sustain their defense, complainant appeals.
1Opinion of the CourtBlair, J.
This is an appeal from a decree and pro*311ceedings in the circuit court for the county of "Wayne, in chancery. Complainant, in her bill of complaint, among other things, alleges that, together with her father, one of the defendants, she was in possession of the premises described in said bill of complaint, under and by virtue, and in part performance, of a parol agreement made with her father, whereby she should keep house for her father upon the said premises as long as he should live, and, as compensation for such service, should have the premises as her own at the death of her father, he…
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