Marvin v. Schilling

Manning J.:

This is an action of ejectment for the N. 1-2 of S. W. 1-4 of Sec. 8, township 15 N. of R. 9 E.

The land was patented by the United States to Timothy L. Howe. Howe died between 1845 and 1848, leaving a widow, Olive B. Howe, and an only son and child named Thaddeus B. Howe. Thaddeus was never married, and died in 1855. Olive B. Howe, the widow, married Procter Tong, by whom ' she had one child called Eliza, beth. She died in 1851. In May, 1858, Lucius S. Marvin was appointed guardian of Elizabeth Tong, by the Probate Court of Tuscola county, in which the land is situated, she at that…