Coffin v. Ontonagon Circuit Judge
Michigan Supreme Court
Mandamus by Benjamin Howard Coffin to compel Norman W. Haire, circuit judge of Ontonagon county, to set aside an order admitting certain persons to appear and defend after a decree pro confesso on substituted service had been entered.
1Opinion of the CourtMontgomery, J.
About February 14, 1898, the relator, Benjamin Howard Coffin, and Charles Winthrop *421Coffin filed their bill in the circuit court for the county of Ontonagon, alleging that they were the owners of the northwest quarter and the southeast quarter of section thirty (30), in township fifty (50) north, of range thirty-nine (39) west, in Ontonagon county, the title to which had come to them by will from their father, G. Winthrop Coffin, then deceased; that the title thereto was acquired by said G. Winthrop Coffin by sheriff’s deed on execution sale issued against the Victoria Mining Company, which…
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