Platt v. Stewart

Christiancy J.:

Plaintiff in error brought an action of ejectment in the Circuit Court for the county of Shiawassee, against defendants in error, for the recovery of the undivided one-fourth of certain lands situate in that county; and having shown on the trial a prima facie title, derived through a deed from Daniel Ball and wife to Jonathan Child, dated June 17th, 1889, and from Child to Henry J. Whitehouse, dated June 15th, 1842, and from Whitehouse to himself, dated February 21st, 1858, rested his case.

The defendants sought to defeat the plaintiff’s title, and to show title in themselves,…