Litchfield v. Sisson

A careful examination of the affidavits presented convinces me that the plaintiff has not been guilty of laches, either in making this motion or in failing to know of the proofs now claimed by him to be newly discovered. The important element of those proofs is the copy of a map of the Macomb purchase, made in 1191, by Charles C. Brodhead, which copy, since the trial, has been found in the possession of one Casimir Constable, a descendant of a former part owner of the tract to which the plaintiff’s- prem*412ises belonged. I think I should assume for the purposes of this motion, that the original…