Miller v. Beck

This is an action of ejectment to recover possession of a strip of land in the city of Lansing, a few inches wide, upon which rests the outer and rear wall of a brick store owned by the defendant Rebecca Beck.

Samuel Beck purchased in 1869 a parcel of land off the north end of lot six, block 100, in the city of Lansing, 20 feet north and south by 66 feet east and west. This is now the property of Rebecca,1 his widow. When Samuel bought the land there was a wooden building upon it, which was burned in August, 1870 or 1871. The year it was burned, Samuel Beck erected a three-story brick…