Jeffries v. State Ex Rel. Director of Department of Conservation

This is a companion case to Klais, plaintiffs, and State of Michigan, intervening plaintiff, v. Danowski, defendants, 373 Mich 262, and Klais v. Danowski, 373 Mich 281, in which opinions are this day handed down. The lots involved and the persons claiming title thereto are different in this case than in that. The lots in both, however, were held by the trial court to be part of the same Private Claim 623, involved in that case, patented by the United States on June 1, 1811, to the legal heirs of James Abbott, Esq.

In this case the plaintiffs, husband and wife, claim to be the owners of lot 256…